First Japanese Embassy to Europe (1862)
- First Japanese Embassy to Europe (1862)
The First Japanese Embassy to Europe (Japanese:第１回遣欧使節, also 開市開港延期交渉使節団) was sent to Europe by the Tokugawa shogunate in 1862. The head of the mission was Takenouchi Yasunori, governor of Shimotsuke Province (present-day Tochigi Prefecture). The head of the mission staff was Shibata Sadataro. Fukuzawa Yukichi was a member of the mission, acting as one of the two translators. The mission numbered 40 men.
The mission was sent in order to learn about Western civilization, ratify treaties, and delay the opening of cities and harbour to foreign trade. Negotiations were made in France, the UK, the Netherlands, Prussia and finally Russia. They were almost gone an entire year.
The members of the mission were extensively photographed by Nadar.
In London, the Mission visited the 1862 World Fair. Five years later, Japan would formally participate to the 1867 World Fair in Paris.
Although unknown by Japanese officials at that time, Hasekura Tsunenaga had preceded them by more than 200 years as the first official Japanese envoy to Europe.
ee also
* Japanese Embassy to the United States (1860)
* Second Japanese Embassy to Europe (1863)
* Iwakura mission
References
*Shin Jinbutsu Ōrai-sha, eds.: "Ikokujin no Mita Bakumatsu–Meiji Japan, Aizō-ban" (異国人の見た幕末・明治JAPAN 愛蔵版: Bakumatsu and Meiji Japan in the Eyes of Foreigners, Enthusiasts’ Edition). Tokyo, 2005. ISBN 4404032528 (ISBN-10), ISBN 978-4404032522 (ISBN-13) ja icon
External links
* [http://www.lib.u-tokyo.ac.jp/tenjikai/tenjikai95-2/bak1s.html First Embassy to Europe] (Japanese)
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