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.
this post was submitted on 23 Nov 2023
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The youtube channel Voices of the Past has a lot of readings of firsthand written accounts of first contacts, unusual voyages, etc for anyone interested in this kind of thing. It's really fascinating to hear in their own words what they thought of these places, people, and of themselves.