In 1864, a group of samurai traveled from Japan as part of a …In 1864, a group of Japanese samurai, part of the Ikeda Mission sent to Europe by the Tokugawa shogunate, visited Egypt and were famously photographed in front of the Great Sphinx of Giza. This mission’s purpose was to study Western institutions and technology as Japan began to open after centuries of isolation, and their stop in Egypt was a notable cross-cultural moment before the end of the samurai era.
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“OK lads, I think we took a wrong turn somewhere.”
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In 1864, a group of samurai traveled from Japan as part of a …In 1864, a group of Japanese samurai, part of the Ikeda Mission sent to Europe by the Tokugawa shogunate, visited Egypt and were famously photographed in front of the Great Sphinx of Giza. This mission’s purpose was to study Western institutions and technology as Japan began to open after centuries of isolation, and their stop in Egypt was a notable cross-cultural moment before the end of the samurai era.
“OK lads, I think we took a wrong turn somewhere.”