JAPAN IN OUR DAY.

TAYLOR, Bayard. comp.

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New York 1892, Scribner. Brown cloth, 293p., 23 b.w. illus- trations & engravings, very clean copy. Representation of life & customs of Japan on the eve of it's opening to the arts & ideas of modern Western civilization. Includes sections on early contact with Japan, Townsend Harris, Sir Rutherford Alcock, the city of Yedo, etc. A good source for late Tokugawa-early Meiji period factual study of Japanese government in turmoil, change of institutions, the arrival of Perry & other foreigners, the openining of Japan, Alcock's residence at Yokohama, Humbert's voyage from Nag- asaki to Yedo, life in Edo, and other primary experiences by foreign diplomats. An excellent study of early forigners in Japan. Their internal travels, dealings with the Japanese government officials, danger, contemporary history &c. **** WHO WAS BAYARD TAYLOR: Bayard Taylor [January 11, 1825 -December 19, 1878] was an American poet, literary critic, translator, and world travel author. He accompanied Commodore Perry to Japan, China, Hong Kong, Shanghai and Canton in 1853 aboard teh U.S.S Susquehanna. * U.S.S. Susquehanna became Commodore Matthew Perry's flagship and entered Tokyo Bay with his squadron on 8 July 1853. After Perry had presented his requests to the Japanese Government, the American warships departed on 17 July. On 12 February 1854, Susquehanna returned with the squadron to Japan to receive the signed treaty. The frigate departed Japanese waters on 24 March; and, after operating on the China coast, headed home via the Indian Ocean and the Cape of Good Hope. ****. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 84293905

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