A group of drawings & Japanese internal government communiqués on foreign incursions

by Early Foreign Encounters

$7,500 · Offered by Jonathan A. Hill Bookseller

Three large folded sheets & two lengthy letters with their original manuscript envelopes. Japan: ca. 1822-31. An exceptional collection of documents on two consequential early Western visits to Japan in the 1820s: the first landing of the Saracen at Uraga and the Takarajima incident. During this period, accounts of these incursions were kept top-secret as matters of Japanese national security. Pre-Commodore Perry materials, such as ours, are extremely

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