Identifier: grandestcenturyi00nort (find matches)
Title: Grandest century in the world's history; containing a full and graphic account of the marvelous achievements of one hundred years, including great battles and conquests; the rise and fall of nations; wonderful growth and progress of the United States ... etc., etc
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: Northrop, Henry Davenport, 1836-1909
Subjects: Nineteenth century
Publisher: Philadelphia, Pa., National publishing co
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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for-eign commerce. The Russians andDutch then made similar treaties withthe shogun. On the 17th of June, 1857,Mr. Harris, the United States consul toJapan, made a still more advantageoustreaty with the shogun, by which theharbor of Nagasaki was also opened toAmerican commerce. In 1858, in spite of the opposition ofthe Japanese, Mr. Harris proceeded toYedo, and concluded a third treaty stillmore advantageous to the United States.During the same year Ivord Elgin, es-corted by a British squadron, reached 242 ASIA AND AFRICA IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY. Yedo and negotiated a treaty betweenGreat Britain and Ja))an, by which itwas agreed that the pcrts of Hakodate,Kanagawa and Nagasaki, should beopened to British subjects after July i,1859. ^^^ arrival of Commodore Perry the mikado as the spiritual ruler of th(empire who did not concern himsellwith its temporal affairs. The shogunon his part encouraged this belief, andsigned the treaties without referringthem to the mikado or asking his con-
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INTERIOR OF A JAPANESE THEATRE. was the beginning of the intercourse ofJapan with the nations of America andEurope, an intercourse which has en-tirely changed the destiny of the em-pire. All the foreigners made ,xie mistakeof regarding the shogun as the rightfulEmperor of Japan. They looked upon sent to their signature. Ihis act wa?looked upon by the Japanese as a freshusurpation of power on the part of theshogun, and aroused a strong reactionin favor of the mikado. The nationwas opposed to the violation by the shogun of the traditional policy of nonintercourse with foreigners, and the ASIA AND AFRICA IN THE) NINETEENTH CENTURY. 243 country resounded with the cry, Honorthe mikado and expel the barbarian.The shogun was regarded as a traitor,and the cause of the mikado was greatlystrengthened. In 1858 the shogun died, and theprime minister li, a man of great abilityand unscrupulous character, became re-gent. He set aside the true successor,and bestowed the shogunate upon theinfant Princ

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