Photo of feudal warrior likely taken by John Manjiro: researcher

Akiyoshi Tani, a specialist at the University of Tokyo's Historiographical Institute, explains in Kochi, western Japan, on March 13, 2015, his research results that show a portrait photo of the Tosa domain's reform-minded "samurai" warrior Yoshida Toyo was likely taken by John Manjiro in 1861 in Edo, today's Tokyo. The photo was one of the first wet collodion process photography shots in Japan. Manjiro was the first Japanese known to have studied in the United States. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo