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This display presents fourteen mounted albumen prints and two related engravings from the Japanese missions to Europe in 1862 and 1864. The delegations, which were sent by the Tokugawa Shogunate to renegotiate the terms of earlier trade agreements, visited several European cities during overseas voyages lasting up to twelve months abroad. Taken in Paris by Jacques-Philippe Potteau, these portrait…