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[Letter from Niwata Shōzō]
- AI summary (β)
- Confidential letter dated May 3, from Niwata Shōzō of Tobi-Ashiya, Seidō Village, Muko District, Hyōgo Prefecture, to His Excellency Hiraga Yuzuru in Aoyama Minami-machi, Akasaka Ward, Tokyo City. States that he keenly feels responsibility for having, through a certain incident, caused the loss of the trust in warship design built up by his seniors; describes seventeen days of confinement; requests guidance and encouragement for the sake of the Imperial Japanese Navy; and expresses his readiness to serve in whatever post he may be assigned, even though he has left the work unit. Year unknown; no publication information. Keywords: Niwata Shōzō, Hiraga Yuzuru, letter, Imperial Japanese Navy, warship design, torpedo boat, confinement, work unit, May 3Auto-generated by Azure OpenAI gpt-5.5 from OCR text (which may contain errors) and image captions.
- Item ID
- 1d4f83fd-37f2-401f-af87-db594b4190f5
- Catalogue ID
- 10040201
- Card catalogue
- "Tomozuru Incident" [Letter addressed to Hiraga]
- Doc type
- 平賀宛書翰(「庭田尚三 五月三日」封筒に在中)
- Category
- 水雷艇
- Extent
- Letter paper, brush writing; envelope | 2 sheets
- Holder
- 東京大学柏図書館
- Year registered
- 2007
- GCV entities
- Handwriting / Calligraphy





























