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Sketch from the Treaty of Kanagawa

Sketch of Simoda from the Treaty of Kanagawa, 1854 (detail)
On March 31, 1854, the first treaty between Japan and the United States was signed. The Treaty was the result of an encounter between an elaborately planned mission to open Japan and an unwavering policy by Japan’s government of forbidding commerce with foreign nations. Two nations regarding each other as “barbarians” found a way to reach agreement.
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