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1921. The Marine Journal May 14: "The Nippon Yusen Kaisha is reported to have placed an order with the Mitshubishi shipyard, Nagasaki, for three 10,000-ton steamers, the Hakone Maru, the Haruna Maru, and the Amagi Maru."
Proceedings of the United States Naval Institute, Volume 48: The largest merchant vessel built last year was the twin screw steamer Hakone Maru of 10,500 gross tons, which was constructed at the Nagasaki works of the Mitsubishi Shosen Kaisha for the Nippon Yusen Kaisha. She is a combination passenger and cargo carrier and has a speed of 16 knots. Her propelling machinery consists of two sets of Parsons double- reduction geared turbines.
See https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Far_Eastern_Review/8kZBAQAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&bsq=HAKONE+MARU&dq=HAKONE+MARU&printsec=frontcover
Text of Vancouver World article above (not cleaned up):
IS KNOWN AS ELECTRIC SHIP Hakone Mara Will Be Most Modern Liner Built in Japan, Says Officers of Suwa Maru The Hakone Maru. first of three modern liners built In Japan for European trade, will be the finest mer chant ship that has yet been turned out by Japanese shit'yaidb, according tc Capt. M. Machida, commander of tbe r 1 .K. liner Suwa laru. in nor. early In the day from the Orient. in tonnage ana general design tne Hakone Maru will be practically a sis ter ship to the liner Katori Maru. plying In the Vancouver - Orient trade, but will embody all the most modern Im provements known to tbe shipbuilding art. She Is known In Japan as the "elec tric ship." While electricity playa no part In her propulsive power, the Hakone Maru will be fitted with everything In the shape of electrical equipment, even to electrlo ranges In the ship's galley. She will also be fitted with Urge refrigerating space for the handling of cold storage products In the European trade. Australian frozen beef and mut ton, Capt. Machida says, may be han dled by these new liners. The cold storage cargo would be shipped from Australia by the regular Australian ships of the Nippon Yusen Kalsha to xoKonama or Hongkong, and transhipped at these ports for distribution at v - ioiis ports toucnea at en route to turope. .no Hakone Maru Is named after the famous hot springs near Tokio.Source: IJA Transport HAKONE MARU: Tabular Record of Movement
12 July 1920:
Nagasaki. Laid down at Mitsubishi Shipbuilding Co., Ltd. as Yard No. 346, a 10,423 ton passenger -cargo-ship for Nippon Yusen Kabushiki Kaisha (NYK Line), (Tokyo)
25 July 1921:
Launched and named HAKONE MARU.
31 October 1921:
Completed. HAKONE MARU can carry 118 first-class passengers, 55 second class and about 134 third class passengers.
Maiden Voyage
Maiden Voyage
Replaced the Kaga Maru on this route.
[See above, arrived London January 18, 1922]
Railway and Marine News: (1921) : Of these, the Hakone Maru will start on her maiden voyage on November 1
Source: Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer - Tuesday 31 January 1922, p. 3
JAPAN REPLACING SHIPPING LOST IN THE WAR.
To celebrate the maiden voyage of the s.s. Hakone Maru, the first vessel built in Japan to replace the tonnage lost by the Nippon Yusen during the war, a number of prominent commercial gentlemen yesterday inspected the steamship Hakone Maru at the North-Eastern Docks, Middlesbrough, and were afterwards entertained to luncheon on board the steamer.
The Hakone Maru is first of three new steamers built by the Nitsubishi Company,Nagasaki, to replace the company's European liners lost during the war. These steamers have been constructed to meet tho requirements of the Japanese Government, and the highest class in Lloyd's Rigester of Shipping. The Hakone Maru was launched at Nagasaki on July 25th last, and sailed from Japan on November 25th on her maiden voyage, arriving in London on January 18. Her gross tonnage 10.422. Accommodation provided for 120 first-class, 56 second-class and 180 third-class passengers.
Mr. Alfred Bulnier, of the firm of T. A. Buhner and Co., Middlesbrough, who are the representatives of the Nippon Co., speaking after theluncheon, said that the Nippon.Yusen Kaisha was established in 1885 with a fleet 58 steamers, representing 68,000 tons, or an average of 1.200 tons each. The fleet now totalled 110 steamers, with a gross tonnage of 571.390. and the company's flag was seen on most seas in the world. The most important service was the European service, which was opened nearly twenty-six years ago with a monthly service of cargo and passenger steamers, and was made a fortnightly service as soon as new vessels could be built. It was source of great satisfaction that the Nippon Yusen Kaisha were ablo to keep a regularly fortnightly service throughout war.
Mr. J. H. Amos, general manager of the Tees Conservancy Commission, in proposing the health of Captain Sekine, who has command of the Maru, also traced the growth of the Nippon Company, and said when their first vessel, the Tosa Maru. arrived at Middlesbrough on June 10. 1896. the Tees Commissioners hoped and believed that was the beginning of a very good service. That hope had been thoroughly realised—(Applause)—and the Nippon Company, with others, had assisted the Commissioners carry out great improvements in the River Tees. Vessels were becoming largo that they had had to obtain Parliamentary authority to widen the river make it easy for navigation as had been in the past.
Captain T. Sekine suitably responded.
[Gravesend ? the same as the docks mentioned]
Prince Kitashirakawa
Wife doesn't arrive until November, but also on Hakone Maru
Also on Maiden voyage ?
https://jref.com/articles/kuma-bori-bear-carvings.409/ look up about :
Tokugawa Yoshichika (徳川義親, 1886-1976), the last daimyō of the Owari branch of the Tokugawa clan, introduced those woodcarvings to Hokkaido. Yoshichika was a botanist, founder of the Tokugawa Art Museum in Nagoya, and a political activist who supported the failed military coup of 1936. In 1921-22, he travelled with his wife through Europe, where he also spent some time with Albert Einstein aboard the 'Hakone-maru'.
Bear carvings: https://www.travel.co.jp/guide/article/35198/
"Yoshichika Tokugawa, the owner of the Owari-Tokugawa family, traveled to Europe from 1921 to 1922 and purchased a bear wood carving (folk craft) in Bern, Switzerland. The following year, in 1923, he was sent to Tokugawa Farm to encourage farmers and nearby Ainu to produce bear wood carvings as a source of winter income. In 1924, the first bear wood carving in Hokkaido appeared. Yakumo wood carving bears are becoming more and more known. When wood carving bears were sold during the Hokkaido tourism boom in the 1960s, they were produced all over the country, and the image of "wood carving bears with salmon" became established."
http://home.r07.itscom.net/miyazaki/zakki/tokugawa/index.html:
Google : " I got on the luxury liner "Hakone Maru" which NYK has just completed as a flower of the European route. It took 6 weeks from Yokohama to London around this time. Shanghai, Singapore, Colombo, Naples, Marseille ... There were 17 destinations. In Vienna, his wife, Yonago, is playing a koto. The place is still the New Year's Concert on TV, but it is said that this was the first time Europeans heard Japanese music at the Wiener Musikverein."
https://blog.goo.ne.jp/takiji_2008/e/b84a159d166f25e655f895cb5afa6a89:
Google: "It was in November 1918 that Ishikawa went on a trip to Europe with Yuriko. The royal family Kita Shirakawagu was also on board the Hakone Maru where they were on board. Yoshichika Tokugawa, the 19th generation of the Owari-Tokugawa family, was also on board as a member of the trip to Europe to salute the Crown Prince of Romania who came to the morning the previous year. Yoshichika Tokugawa was an intellectual who graduated from the Department of History and Faculty of Science at the University of Tokyo and is active in various fields.Sanshiro Ishikawa becomes close to Yoshichika Tokugawa on board. Yoshichika Tokugawa wrote the story in his autobiography.
When I got on the Hakone Maru from Kobe with Kita Shirakawagu, a detective asked me and complained.
"On this ship, a cautionary person, Sanshiro Ishikawa, is on board. Ishikawa is a socialist and a friend of Kotoku Shusui in the High Treason Incident. masu "
but a matter of course, but I do not know the face of Sanshiro Ishikawa. However, when I was introduced to him by a detective and met him, Ishikawa was a good scholar. He was a much better gentleman than the gentlemen in that area. Ishikawa-kun is a third-class passenger, but there were few first-class passengers as much as Ishikawa-kun.
...... Ishikawa is a gentle gentleman and a scholar. I respected him as a friend. I also introduced Ishikawa to Kita Shirakawa Shrine. It's neither dangerous nor radical, as the police say. Rather, it can be said that both Kita Shirakawamiya and I were taught by Ishikawa-kun and opened our horizons.
Thanks to Yoshichika Tokugawa's treatment, Ishikawa may have been saved both physically and mentally.
Ishikawa, who went to France, went to Brussels with Paul Reclus and started work to send the huge collection of books held in the institute to Japan (the collection that he had a hard time bringing back to Japan was due to the Great Kanto Earthquake. Everything was burnt down). Having successfully completed his mission, he left Yuriko Mochizuki in France and returned home immediately.
Yoshichika Tokugawa hired Ishikawa, who returned to Japan, as a French teacher for his three daughters at Gakushuin University. When it became known that he became a tutor of the Tokugawa family, Ishikawa became able to support himself with the income of the tutor at the request of a language professor from another family. This is why he rented a house in Nakazato, Takinogawa-ku, where the Japanese National Railways railroad tracks run under the cliff. The rented house was a small upstairs house."
Same story with correct date:
The lord is Yoshichika Tokugawa. It was a detective in Kobe who linked this lord with the anarchist Ishikawa Sanshiro. In October 1921, Japan's largest passenger ship, the Hakone Maru (10,000 ton class), was launched and made its first voyage. Prince Naruhisa Kita Shirakawa invited me to the lord. "You are not familiar with the etiquette of the general public in the military. Accompanied to your teaching in the boat!" The lord to become a senior of Gakushuin was underwriting. A detective boarded in Kobe and said to the lord, "Sanshiro Ishikawa, a cautionary person, is on this ship. He is a socialist and a friend of Kotoku Shusui in the high treason incident. I would like to ask for the protection of the palace." "It's okay to accept it, but I don't know that Ishikawa. Let's meet."The lord liked Ishikawa at a glance. Although he is a good scholar and a third-class passenger, he evaluates that there are few people like him even on a first-class ship. Sanshiro Ishikawa was born in 1876 and is 10 years older than the lord. He made a non-war theory during the Russo-Japanese War. "Heimin Shimbun" was launched with Kotoku Shusui and Kinoshita Naoe, "If war-openers and patriots are patriots, and non-war scholars are patriots." The Great Treason Incident in 1910, Ishikawa was not involved, but the world doubted. The conspiracy theory of Choshu Katsura was also disseminated. The lord says, "It is good if the happiness of the people is realized regardless of whether it is socialism or nationalism. It is good if the purpose is realized regardless of the principle claim." Both the lord and the palace were enlightened by Ishikawa in the ship and their horizons expanded.
After returning to Japan, Ishikawa will teach the daughters of the lord as a French tutor. A teacher at Gakushuin asked why the pronunciation was better. The daughters innocently answered, "I'm Mr. Sanshiro Ishikawa," and surprised not only the Gakushuin but also the Imperial Household Ministry. In the Imperial Household Ministry, there was Yoshitami Matsudaira, the brother of the lord. In response to the inquiry, Mr. Tono responded with a cool face, saying, "We only have a Wakayanagi-style teacher and a French teacher at home, and we do not hire socialists."
In the Great Kanto Earthquake of 1923, the lord visited Ishikawa in Tabata by bicycle from his home in Mejiro. A family member said he wanted to be taken to the Kameido police station. Take a bicycle to the Kameido police station. Although it was work clothes, he showed his business card to the chief and took over Ishikawa saying that Tokugawa would be the underwriter. Since it was when Sakae Osugi was killed, I don't know what would have happened if Ishikawa's life had not been helped by the lord.
Suzuki on Maiden Voyage
Suzuki on Maiden Voyage
See "KLINGLER Rejects SUZUKI as his Student in 1923" : Official letter from Hakuei Wakiya Vice Director of NYK Maritime Museum.
I am in charge for answering to the inquiries. I received your E-Mail message asking existence of passenger list of Hakone Maru in year 1921 sailed Japan December 14.
Suzuki arrived on the Hakone Maru in Marseilles in February 1922 (Germany- March?)
Whole controversy about violinist Suzuki stems from his own claims to have departed in 1920 (before the ship was even built). [From his autobiography: "Though disappointed with the Ueno Music Academy in the spring, by autumn I was on board the luxury liner Hakone Maru en route to Marseilles. My father thought I was on a world tour, but I was really on my way to Germany to study. It was October, 1920, and I was twenty-two.”' and "I had said good-bye to Marquis Tokugawa, who as going on a world tour, at his suite at Marseilles, and I had gone straight to Berlin with Mr. Fiegel, a German engineer I had become friendly with on board the Hakone Maru"]
“If Shinichi Suzuki travelled in the Hakone Maru to Germany, in the company of the Marquis Tokugawa he can only have arrived there in February 1922 at the earliest, as the Hakone Maru was only launched in November 1921, and departed from Japan on her Maiden voyage in December 1921-the journey took approximately 2 months. Equally, after marrying Waltraud Prange in February 1928, the couple left Germany 4 months after this (according to Waltraud Pranges autobiography, in June 1928.”
See also: https://markoconnorblog.blogspot.com/2014/10/suzukis-biggest-lie.html?q=suzuki
Library of Congress: Journeys to Java by Tokugawahttps://www.worldcat.org/title/journeys-to-java/oclc/123348025
Maiden Return Voyage
Maiden Return Voyage
Click for more on Japanese Business Men's Mission, which include Manzo Kushida,
The Victoria Daily Times Victoria, British Columbia, Canada • Wed, Mar 29, 1922 Page 8
Advertising for Maiden Voyage
Advertising for Maiden Voyage
Earliest one I have found so far.
THE SEATTLE DAILY TIMES Wednesday, Jun 17, 1925 Seattle, WA Page: 28
White Bluffs spokesman. Friday, Nov 19, 1926 White Bluffs, WA Vol: 20 Issue: 17 Page: 4
Large model of ship
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