Two Japanese officials and six sailors of Daimyo Nabeshima of Hizen Province on a row boat to Captain Adam Johann von Krusenstern's ship Nadezhda near Nagasaki, Japan, 1804. The Japanese later ejected Russian Ambassador Nikolay Rezanov. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Carl Bertuch's Bilderbuch fur Kinder (Picture Book for Children), Weimar, 1810.

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