[Reddit]A Group of Samurai in front of Egypt’s Sphinx, 1864

[Reddit]A Group of Samurai in front of Egypt’s Sphinx, 1864 From the Wikipedia page – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Japanese_Embassy_to_Europe_(1863) The Second Japanese Embassy to Europe (Japanese: 第２回遣欧使節, also 横浜鎖港談判使節団), also called the Ikeda Mission, was sent on February 6, 1864 by the Tokugawa shogunate. The head of the mission was Ikeda Nagaoki, governor of small villages of Ibara,…