USS Niagara (1855)
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The second USS Niagara was a screw frigate in the United States Navy.
The Niagara, HMS Valorous, HMS Gorgon and Agamemnon laying the cable at mid-ocean
The Japanese Embassy to the United States was dispatched in 1860 by the Tokugawa shogunate (bakufu). Its objective was to ratify the new Treaty of Friendship, Commerce, and Navigation between the United States and Japan, in addition to being Japan's first diplomatic mission to the United States since the 1854 opening of Japan by Commodore Matthew Perry.
Kanrin Maru (circa 1860)
The three plenipotentiary members of the Japanese embassy: Muragaki Norimasa, Shinmi Masaoki, and Oguri Tadamasa.
Fukuzawa Yukichi with Theodora Alice in San Francisco, 1860.
Reception at the White House