Second Japanese Embassy to Europe (1863)
- Second Japanese Embassy to Europe (1863)
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The Second Japanese Embassy to Europe (Japanese:第２回遣欧使節, also 横浜鎖港談判使節団) , also called the Ikeda Mission, was sent on December 29th 1863 by the Tokugawa shogunate. The head of the mission was Ikeda Nagaoki, governor of Chikugo Province (Fukuoka Prefecture). The assistant head of the mission was Kawazu Sukekuni, governor of Izu Province.
The objective of the mission was to obtain French agreement to the closure of the harbour of Yokohama to foreign trade. The mission was sent following the 1863 "Order to expel barbarians" (攘夷実行の勅命) edicted by Emperor Kōmei, and the Bombardment of Shimonoseki incidents, in a wish to close again the country to Western influence, and return to sakoku status. The task proved impossible, as Yokohama was the center of foreign presence in Japan since the opening of the country by Commodore Perry in 1854.
On the way to France, the mission visited Egypt, where the members of the mission were photographed posing before the Sphinx by Antonio Beato, brother of the famous photographer Felice Beato. The members of the mission were abundantly photographed in Paris by Nadar.
The mission returned to Japan in failure, on July 22nd, 1864.
ee also
* Japanese Embassy to the United States (1860)
* First Japanese Embassy to Europe (1862)
References
*Bennet, Terry: "Early Japanese Images". Tuttle Publishing, 1998. ISBN 0804820333 (ISBN-10) ISBN 978-0804820332 (ISBN-13)
External links
* [http://www.lib.u-tokyo.ac.jp/tenjikai/tenjikai95-2/bak2.html The Second Embassy] (Japanese)
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