tōgō

May 27, 1905 - Japanese Adm. Togo decimated the Russian Baltic Fleet in the Korean Strait (Strait of Tsushima). Russia capitulated. This was the first war in which the yellow race defeated the white race since the days of the Mongols

He looks really tired

^ He's just resting his eyes.

Actually, I've just read that within Japanese culture today a person appearing to be asleep when a lecturer or presenter is speaking can signify confiednce in the speaker. I wonder if that applies to this pic of Admiral Togo.

This photo was taken on August 15, 1911. Togo is riding in the back of the car in this photo. This was taken at the Brooklyn Naval Yard just before or after he toured the dreadnought North Dakota. This was the beginning of a two week tour of seaports between Washington and Boston. Note that this is not in West Point. The car there only had three steel supports on the canopy.

An article about this visit can be found in the New York Times Archives, printed the day after on Sunday, August 13, 1911. (pdf format)

This should be August 3rd, 1911. Togo arrived from Liverpool on the Lusitania. It arrived late in the evening on Thursday, August 3rd, 1911, which would explain the reason for the night shot with no background scenery. New York Times on August 5th says that Togo went to bed in his room at Hotel Knickerbocker at 2am Friday, August 4th, 1911. Full schedule of Togo's tour of the US is in an August 2nd, 1911 NYTimes article.

Another Bain/LOC photo of the after-dark (post-midnight) reception of Admiral Togo in New York. Togo actually disembarked after midnight, on the morning of August 4, 1911: Story of Admiral Togo's reception in The New York Times, August 4, 1911: query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9C05EEDE1531E2...