Commodore Matthew Calbraith Perry’s third great-grandson
The other night, a TV show tracked down the descendants of famous figures in Japanese history. Here’s a video of Commodore Perry’s descendant:
The man in the video is Dr. Frederic Hone Nichols, the third great-grandson of Commodore Perry. Nichols displays the original print of the famous photograph of the Commodore that can be seen in school textbooks all across Japan. He reveals a little-known secret about the picture: one of the button’s on Perry’s uniform was missing, so the photographer painted the button onto the photo.
