The first Japanese embassy to the United States of America
Subtitle: sent to Washington in 1860 as the first of the series of embassies specially sent abroad by the Tokugawa shogunate
Contributors: Shibama, C; Muragaki, Norimasa, 1813-1880; Johnston, James D; Miyoshi, Shigehiko
Publisher: The America-Japan Society
Published: 1920
Place of publication: Tokyo
Language: eng
Number of pages: 336
Subjects: Japan -- Foreign relations -- United States; United States -- Foreign relations -- Japan
Notes: Compiled by C. Shibama
Table of contents: value: Diary of the first Japanese embassy to the United States, written by Muragaki Awaji-no-Kami, vice-ambassador; trans. by Mr. Shigehiko Miyoshi.; value: The Japanese embassy, as seen by Lieut. J. I. [!] Johnston, U.S.N.; value: News items, gleaned from American papers issued 60 years ago and collected in Japan.; value: Exceprts from later publications: The great Japanese embassy, by P. Du Bois.; value: Our first acquaintance with the Japanese, by Dr. F. J. Steiner