Ploetz' Manual of Universal History From the Dawn of Civilization to the Outbreak of the Great War of 1914

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Growing dissatisfaction with the usurped power of the shoguns among the samurai ; jealousy of the long possession of the shogunate by the Tokugawa family (1603-1868) among the great daimios.
1853, July 7. Commodore Perry, of the United States navy, en- tered the harbor of Yedo with four vessels, but soon departed j in Feb. 1854, he returned, and concluded a A. D. Japan. 563 1854, Mar. 21. Treaty between Japan and the United States, which was signed by the shogun, whom Perry took to be the "secu
...lar emperor " of Japan, under the newly assumed title of tai- kun (tycoon, "great prince," properly a title of the mikado). Trea- ties with Great Britain (1854, Oct. 14), and Russia (1865, Jan. 26).
In 1858 treaties (peace, amity, .unrestricted commerce) concluded with the United States (Tovms^end Harris), Great Britain (Elgin), France, Russia, — all signed by the shogun.
1859. Yokohama, Nagasaki, Hakodate, opened to trade.
These unwarranted assumptions of power on the part of the shogun angered the mikado and the Kioto court, where the foreigners were regarded with deep distrust.


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