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Machida Hisanari was the first director of the [[Tokyo National Museum]].

Machida Hisanari was the first director of the [[Tokyo National Museum]].

He was one of nineteen [[Satsuma students|young men]] from [[Satsuma han]] who traveled surreptitiously to Europe in [[1865]] to study, and to bring back modern technology to aid in Satsuma's modernization & industrialization efforts. Twenty-eight years old at the time, he helped direct the studies of the younger members of the mission, and took on another name for the duration of the journey: he was known as Ueno Ryôtarô while abroad.

He was one of nineteen [[Satsuma students|young men]] from [[Satsuma han]] who traveled surreptitiously to Europe in [[1865]] to study, and to bring back modern technology to aid in Satsuma's modernization & industrialization efforts. Twenty-eight years old at the time, he helped direct the studies of the younger members of the mission, including two of his younger brothers, [[Machida Sanetsumi]] and [[Machida Seijiro|Seijirô]], and took on another name for the duration of the journey: he was known as Ueno Ryôtarô while abroad.

When the Tokyo National Museum was first established in [[1872]], Machida became its first director. He intended for the museum to be a universal museum, like the British Museum in London, collecting and displaying artifacts from all the cultures of the world. He was a strong supporter of historical research, heritage conservation, and the collection of artifacts for the museum, and helped organize a number of International Expositions to be held in Tokyo which would bring in more objects from across the country and all over the world, to be incorporated into the museum's collections.

When the Tokyo National Museum was first established in [[1872]], Machida became its first director. He intended for the museum to be a universal museum, like the British Museum in London, collecting and displaying artifacts from all the cultures of the world. He was a strong supporter of historical research, heritage conservation, and the collection of artifacts for the museum, and helped organize a number of International Expositions to be held in Tokyo which would bring in more objects from across the country and all over the world, to be incorporated into the museum's collections.