Oguri Tadamasa
Censor of the Japanese delegation; third-ranking in authority. Lord of Bungo
March 19, 1860
Kanrin Maru, San Francisco
Today we allowed the male citizens of San Francisco to board the Kanrin Maru and see where many of our Japanese men have been inhabiting for the past year. The Lieutenant Brooke has spent quite some time trying to convince us to all the women of San Francisco to board as well. We however would never allow women aboard our vessel. There was something written in the Daily Evening Bulletin telling the women here to stay away. The Lieutenant even tried to assure us that there could possibly be women of the same rank as the governor of California. Could you imagine that! There is no way that could possibly be true.
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It was too bad that the women couldn't come along.
ReplyDelete-Fukuzawa Yukichi