“Thank you, thank you,” said Parkes ―― On the twenty-eighth day of the second month of Meiji 2, the assassins of Sanjō Nawate and the turnabout of the advocates of expelling the barbarians
The twenty-eighth day of the second month of Meiji 2 (1869), Kyoto. On this day, the ministers of Britain, France, and the Netherlands were to have an audience with the emperor.
