Earnest Fenollosa

One of the reasons why Museum of Fine Arts, Boston has very fine collection of Japanese Art is because of Earnest Fenollosa (1853 - 1908), a Harvard grad who taught in an university in Japan back in Meiji Era. Not only he bought pieces, he contributed in protecting as well as introducing Japanese arts to the US..
I had the privilege of visiting a house in Salem, Massachusetts in the US., where he spent his childhood.