Manuscript on paper, entitled on upper wrapper “Gaisen ōsetsu henshi” 外船応接片史 “A Fragmentary History of Dealing with Foreign Ships”

by Kansai 伊東貫斎 ItŌ

$5,500 · Offered by Jonathan A. Hill Bookseller

16 leaves, including wrappers. 8vo 250 x 173 mm. , orig. wrappers, stitched. Shimoda: 10 August 1856 . A Japanese official’s intimate record of the first difficult days 21 July-8 August 1856, lunar calendar following the arrival of Townsend Harris 1804-78 at the port city of Shimoda, where he served as the first American consul general to Japan. Harris’s surprise arrival was unwelcome, and it took a full year before the Shimoda bugyō recognized

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