The Garter Mission to Japan
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The young Emperor himself showed from the first the most friendly disposition towards foreigners. His advisers, politicians drawn for the most part from the Satsuma, Choshiu, and Tosa clans, were men who had long since convinced themselves that it was not expedient for Japan to remain In the isolation io6 THE GARTER MISSION TO JAPAN to which her former rulers had for centuries con- demned her. The treaties — pending the possi- bility of entering into new and more advantageous agreements — must ...be ratified. And what was still more important, the Emperor had agreed to receive the foreign representatives.
The day was fixed, and we all went up to Kyoto. The British Legation took up its abode in the beautiful temple of Chi-on-in. The next morning Sir Harry Parkes, with Mr. Satow (now Sir Ernest) and myself, set out for the Gosho Sama, the Imperial Palace. We had with us a formidable escort, our own Legation guard carrying lances on horseback ; a company of the 9th Regiment, with Lieutenants Bradshaw and Bruce, now Marquis of Ailesbury, and a large number of Japanese infantry.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
The young Emperor himself showed from the first the most friendly disposition towards foreigners. His advisers, politicians drawn for the most part from the Satsuma, Choshiu, and Tosa clans, were men who had long since convinced themselves that it was not expedient for Japan to remain In the isolation io6 THE GARTER MISSION TO JAPAN to which her former rulers had for centuries con- demned her. The treaties — pending the possi- bility of entering into new and more advantageous agreements — must ...be ratified. And what was still more important, the Emperor had agreed to receive the foreign representatives.
The day was fixed, and we all went up to Kyoto. The British Legation took up its abode in the beautiful temple of Chi-on-in. The next morning Sir Harry Parkes, with Mr. Satow (now Sir Ernest) and myself, set out for the Gosho Sama, the Imperial Palace. We had with us a formidable escort, our own Legation guard carrying lances on horseback ; a company of the 9th Regiment, with Lieutenants Bradshaw and Bruce, now Marquis of Ailesbury, and a large number of Japanese infantry.
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