Reception for Japanese Embassy at the Academy of Music

Oguri Tadamasa;
Censor of the Japanese delegation; third-ranking in authority. Lord of Bungo
April 1, 1860
Today I and some other high ranking Japanese delegates were served in our rooms when the time came to eat while other Japanese men went to eat at a communal table with what I heard had about a hundred people! The food at the dinner however was said to be unappetizing and many of the Japanese had to eat the dessert for dinner. On the way back to the ship some of our men found some bean curd and we were all overjoyed since we have not been able to eat any since we left Japan! The Americans also supplied us well with some nice quality fish. The people here seem so hospitable.