First audience of a British minister with the Tycoon of Japan at Jeddo [ie Eddo] - from a sketch by S. J. Gower, 1860. 'Mr. Alcock as her Majesty's Envoy Extraordinary and Minister [made] a short speech conveying the desire of his Sovereign to cultivate relations of friendship with the Ruler of Japan. On one side, with his head to the ground, is one of the Governors of Foreign Affairs, Ikimaseng, acting as Master of the the right are members of the High Council of opposite are three of the Ministers of audience took place in the Palac
First audience of a British minister with the Tycoon of Japan at Jeddo [ie Eddo] - from a sketch by S. J. Gower, 1860. 'Mr. Alcock as her Majesty's Envoy Extraordinary and Minister [made] a short speech conveying the desire of his Sovereign to cultivate relations of friendship with the Ruler of Japan. On one side, with his head to the ground, is one of the Governors of Foreign Affairs, Ikimaseng, acting as Master of the the right are members of the High Council of opposite are three of the Ministers of audience took place in the Palace of the Heir all Japanese houses, it is devoid of furniture of any suite of rooms and corridors being unincumbered with filled with officers and attendants in their costume of ceremony, all kneeling, five or six deep - mute and British Minister, followed by Mr. Ensden, his acting secretary and Dutch his third reverence, Ensden advancing with the Queen's letter, the British Minister delivered it to the Minister of Foreign Affairs, who rose to receive Tycoon's appearance was that of a stout, full-grown youth of sixteen, wrapped in an ample robe of silk'. From "Illustrated London News", 1860.
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