Shocking image from the end of the Edo period: "The Sphinx and the Samurai" Handsome Foreign Magistrate Nagaharu Ikeda visits Egypt

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Shocking image from the end of the Edo period: "The Sphinx and the Samurai" Handsome Foreign Magistrate Nagaharu Ikeda visits Egypt

February 23rd, 1864 (the first year of the Genji era) is said to be the day when the Second Edo-period Embassy to Europe, Ikeda Unit (Ikeda Nagaoki), is said to have met with King Ismail Pasha of Egypt. Right from the start, there are a lot of words that seem hard to understand, aren't there...? Anyway, if you take a look at the image below, you'll see that Ikeda Nagaoki was quite a handsome man. Ikeda Nagaoki/National Diet Library Collection He…