Dr. William Sturgis Bigelow

Bigelow was an American physician and collector of Japanese art. He was one of the first Americans to live in Japan, and to introduce the American public to Japanese art and culture. He was also among those who worked to establish protections for Japanese art during a time when the Japanese were willing to sell or destroy elements of their own traditional culture as their country raced to become Westernized. Together with curator Ernesto Fenollosa and fellow physician Charles Goddard Wells, he formed what were known as the "Boston Orientalists." He eventually converted to Buddhism.

Bigelow was one of the few Americans to be granted the rank of Commander of the Imperial Order of the Rising Sun. He never married or had any children.

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Note: Only half of Bigelow's ashes are interred here; the other half is buried at Miidera, just outside Kyoto, Japan.