Diplomats and poets: "power and perceptions" in American encounters with Japan, 1860.

From: Journal of World History | Date: September 1, 2006| Author: | Copyright information 
 
   Over sea, hither from Niphon come, 
   Courteous, the Princes of Asia, swart-cheek'd princes, 
   First-comers, guests, two-sworded princes, 
   Lesson-giving princes, leaning back in their open barouches, 
      bare-headed, impassive, 
   This day they ride through Manhattan. (1)

With these words, Walt Whitman's "A Broadway Pageant" started its description of the Japanese embassy, then visiting the United States in 1860. For Americans, Japan indeed represented "a civilization profoundly unlike their own." (2) Charles Haswell later recalled "the novelty to [Americans], in ...

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