Emperor Meiji (1852 - 1912)
Japanese depiction of an American warship ('the Black Ships') from around 1854 (source: http://ocw.mit.edu/ans7870/21f/21f.027/black_ships_and_samurai/bss_essay03.html)
Tokugawa Yoshinobu (1837 - 1913)Saigō Takamori (1828 - 1877)
Postcard set depicting Emperor Meiji's funeral in 1912 (source: http://apostcardalmanac.blogspot.co.uk/2012/01/emperors-funeral.html)