The data of the “Meiji-Portraits” portal was originally compiled by Bernd Lepach until 2022 based on his own research and presented on the website of the same name (http://meiji-portraits.de/). Mediated by Erich Pauer, who repeatedly supported Bernd Lepach in his work, and Regine Mathias (Vice-President "Études Japonaises", Centre Européen d'Études Japonaises d'Alsace (CEEJA)) the Specialist Information Service Asia (FID Asia) took over this data and stored it. Its transformation into the present website took place in 2025 as part of the work package “SOLR as a Service” during the project phase 2025-2027 of the FID Asia. We would like to thank Christine and Bernd Lepach (Leipzig) for their excellent cooperation and Erich Pauer and Regine Mathias for their valuable support! The editing of the data concerning persons and companies presented here was solely the responsibility of Bernd Lepach.
Please note that depending on whether you search for “persons” or “firms” the selection of filters will change, as not all filters are available for both categories.
The index data of this search function (persons and firms, excluding image files) is also accessible as a research dataset in the CrossAsia Open Access Repository under the DOI link: https://doi.org/10.48796/20260126-000