New Year's card to Maeda Yoshihiko from Sugi Chuzaburo and Sugi Sadatsugu, Samurai of the Bitchu Matsuyama domain with a stipend of 60 koku
This New Year's card, postmarked Bitchu, Takahashi, and dated January 1, 1890, was sent by Sugi Chūzaburō and his eldest son, Sugi Sadatsugu. The Sugi family, although of samurai status, held a modest annual stipend of 60 koku. Chūzaburō's younger son, Sugi Sadamitsu, is noted in Wikipedia as a Japanese naval hero for undertaking two suicidal missions during the Russo-Japanese War.
In addition to the above postal card, we found three more: one from Sadatsugu, dated January 6, 1889, and two from Chūzaburō, dated May 31, 1890 and August 18, 1889. Sadatsugu's card is especially interesting, as he addresses Maeda Yoshihiko simply as an oil paint artist (油絵師) in Kobe, without providing a street address.
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