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A group of samurai visiting the Sphinx, 1864 (sh.itjust.works)
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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.

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[-] PugJesus@kbin.social 9 points 11 months ago

That's cool as fuck

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