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English: Photograph of Captain William H. Whitfield. Whitfield rescued the 14-year-old Nakahama Manjirō from a shipwreck in 1841 and acted as his foster father until Manjirō could return to sea in 1847/
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The presentation of a Samurai sword, the gift of Doctor Toichiro Nakahama, of Tokio, Japan, to the town of Fairhaven, Massachusetts, p. 10. Millicent Library (1918).

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