1904
Prince Fushimi Hiroyasu (1875–1946) was a member of the Japanese imperial family and a distinguished admiral in the Imperial Japanese Navy, eventually serving as Chief of the Naval General Staff from 1932 to 1941. His visit is chronicled in the Mount Vernon, its owner and its story, a book by Harrison Howell Dodge, Mount Vernon's long-time superintendent. According to Colonel Dodge, the prince “came attended by considerable pomp and ceremony. He planted a Japanese maple, whose beautiful foliage accentuates it among the memorial trees one sees at Mount Vernon.”