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.; Johnston, James D.; Miyoshi, Shigehiko.; Muragaki, Norimasa
Publisher: The America-Japan Society
Published: 1920
Place of publication: Tokyo
Language: eng
Number of pages: 312
Subjects: Japan -- Foreign relations -- United States.; United States -- Foreign relations -- Japan.
Table of contents: value: Diary of the first Japanese embassy to the United States, written by Muragaki Awaji-no-Kami, vice-ambassador, translation 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: Excerpts from later publications: The great Japanese embassy, by P. Du Bois.; value: Our first acquaintance with the Japanese, by Dr. F.J. Steiner.