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Seizaburō Shimizu, 1908.

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After finding out what the given name of the Consul General from Japan was in 1895, it was easier to find other information about him, like this picture from the Chicago Daily News. It seems he served as Japanese Consul in Chicago a few years after leaving Hawaii.

Seizaburo Shimizu, Chicago Daily News negatives collection, DN-0006102. Courtesy of Chicago History Museum, found on “American Memory from the Library of Congress.”

This can be found here: http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/D?cdn:1:./temp/~ammem_yyAd::

Consul General from Japan, S. Shimizu, found, 1895 / 2014.

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With the kind help of Bishop Museum volunteer Mr. K. Suzuki, the mystery is solved. The Consul General Representative for 1895 from Japan here in Hawaii nei who appears in “Hawaii’s Story by Hawaii’s Queen” was Seizaburō Shimizu.

[As per a listing of the Japanese consul generals stationed in Honolulu, which is printed in Sōga, Yasutarō. 1953. Gojūnenkan no Hawai Kaiko. Tokyo: Kankōkai.]