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Putyatin’s Arrival at Nagasaki ―― A Mild-Mannered Envoy and the Russian Flag Forty Days Later
The seventeenth day of the sixth month of Kaei 6 (1853). Far out on the sea off Nagasaki, five white sails appeared. Sentries at three posts at once sent word. The magistrate's sentries were somewhat… -
Three Months in Nagasaki ―― The Russian Envoy Putyatin and the Shogunate’s Delaying Tactics
The inspector Ōi Saburōsuke went out to sea. His destination was the Russian ship moored inside the harbor. There was only one thing he had to convey. It was the death of the shogun, Tokugawa Ieyoshi.
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