. Hildreth's "Japan as it was and is" : a handbook of old Japan. Theatrical Representations : The No Dance; Chrysanthemum Figures RECEPTION AT URAGA 289 of all the commodore landed with due formality, whenthe whole body, preceded by the Japanese officers andinterpreters, marched to the house of reception, carryingwith them the presidents letter, the box which held itwrapped in scarlet cloth, as was also that containing theletter of credence. In front of the houses prepared forthe interview were two old brass four-pounders, appar-ently Spanish, and on each side a company of soldiers,those on on
. Hildreth's "Japan as it was and is" : a handbook of old Japan. Theatrical Representations : The No Dance; Chrysanthemum Figures RECEPTION AT URAGA 289 of all the commodore landed with due formality, whenthe whole body, preceded by the Japanese officers andinterpreters, marched to the house of reception, carryingwith them the presidents letter, the box which held itwrapped in scarlet cloth, as was also that containing theletter of credence. In front of the houses prepared forthe interview were two old brass four-pounders, appar-ently Spanish, and on each side a company of soldiers,those on one side armed with matchlocks, those on theother with old Tower muskets, with flint locks and bay-onets. The reception building was a temporary struc-ture, evidently put up for the occasion. The firstapartment, about forty feet square, was of canvas. Thefloor was covered with white cotton cloth, with a path-way of red felt leading across to a raised inner apart-ment, wholly carpeted with the same red felt. Thisapartment, of which the front was entirely open, wa
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