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., comp.; Johnston, James D.; Miyoshi, Shigehiko, tr.; Muragaki Awaji-no-Kami.
Publisher: The America-Japan society
Published: 1921
Place of publication: Tokyo
Language: eng
Number of pages: 312
Subjects: Muragaki, Norimasa, 1813-1888; Manʼen Gannen Kenbei Shisetsu (Japan); Diplomats -- Japan -- Biography; United States -- Foreign relations -- Japan; Japan -- Foreign relations -- United States; United States -- Description and travel
Notes: Replace; LC copy replaced by preservation microfilm
Compiled by C. Shibama.
Table of contents: title: Diary of the first Japanese embassy to the United States, written by Muragaki Awaji-no-Kami, vice-ambassador, translation by Mr. Shigehiko Miyoshi.; title: The Japanese embassy, as seen by Lieut J. I. [!] Johnston, U.S.N.; title: News items, gleaned from American papers issued 60 years ago and collected in Japan.; title: Excerpts from later publications: The great Japanese embassy, by P. Du Bois.; title: Our first acquaintance with the Japanese, by Dr. F. J. Steiner.