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 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.
Imagine travelling all the way from Japan to France in the 19th Century, just for the French to be like “lol no”.