A group of samurai visiting the Sphinx, 1864
A group of samurai visiting the Sphinx, 1864
This photo is of a Japanese embassy mission en-route to France, where they seeked to obtain French agreement to the closure of the Yokohama harbour to foreign trade. They didn’t succeed.
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Imagine travelling all the way from Japan to France in the 19th Century, just for the French to be like "lol no".