This photo is of a Japanese embassy mission en-route to France, where they seeked to obtain French agreement to the closure of the Yokohama harbour to foreign trade. They didn’t succeed.
This photo is of a Japanese embassy mission en-route to France, where they seeked to obtain French agreement to the closure of the Yokohama harbour to foreign trade. They didn’t succeed.
At the time, France was ruled by Emperor Napoleon III who was the nephew of Napoleon I who had fought an early battle nearby: The Battle of the Pyramids. Of course Napoleon III was deposed during the Franco-Prussian War, 6 years after this photo was taken.