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Usui 3rd Bridge (Megane-bashi), completed 1893. The railway through the Usui pass was completed using bridges and tunnels on a path selected by Honma.

Transcript of a speech by Takuma Dan before a convocation at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, November 28, 1921

Kiyoko Makino's entry in the Ten Year Book for the Class of 1905

Student index of the 1906 Technique yearbook with "Makino, Kiyo (Miss)" listed

Takuma Dan, Nagatomo Kuroda, and Kentarō Kaneko arrived in Massachusetts from Fukuoka, Japan in March 1872

Takuma Dan as a Mitsui chairman

Portrait photograph of Takuma Dan, Class of 1878, the second Japanese undergraduate student at MIT

Robert Hallowell Richards and Takuma Dan during Richard's visit to Japan, 1929

Problem 17, from Honma's schoolwork, dated January 11, 1874

Notes on Baron Takuma Dan by Professor Robert Richards

Kiyoko Makino's written response to an MIT Survey of Women Alumnae administered in 1916

Letter from Takuma Dan to Eiichiro Honma, June 12, 1879

Letter from Honma to Hiraga: Worcester, November 24, 1869

Kiyoko Makino, the first Japanese woman and the first woman international student to enroll at MIT

A group of teachers and students from St. Margaret's School, Tokyo, Japan. Kiyoko Makino is pictured in the back row, to the right of the woman wearing the white hat.

Honma's diary: Trip to Hokkaido, August 18, 1897

Portrait photograph of Eiichiro Honma, Class of 1874, the first Japanese undergraduate at MIT

First page of a diary of Eiichiro Honma, 1870

Eiichiro Honma's thesis, 1874, "Design of an Iron Warren Girder Railroad Bridge"

First page of the preamble of the constitution and bylaws of the Boston Japanese Students' Club

Congratulatory card to Takuma Dan from MIT President Samuel W. Stratton and the Institute’s Executive Committee, 1929

Essay about the American Revolution and French Revolution by Honma

Headline from the article "Knowledge for Japan," published in the Boston Globe on November 10, 1901, which features Kiyoko Makino and another Japanese woman, Akuri Inokuchi.