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two months later. The fair aroused considerable interest in Europe, and allowed many visitors to come in contact with
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peerage system in 1892 and founded the separate Matsudo Tokugawa line.
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The Iwakura Mission to America and Europe: A New Assessment
998:(French and Japanese) Tokyo: Ashetto Fujin Gahōsha, 2002.
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Omoto Keiko, フランシス マクワン (1996) 日本の開国―エミール・ギメ あるフランス人の見た明治
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to assure the stability of Mito Domain. He departed from
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865:(Reissue ed.). University of Hawaii Press.
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1080:"所蔵品の紹介 (昭武ゆかりの品) "Akitake yukari no shina""
857:In fifty-eight volumes with ten supplements.
847:] (in Japanese). Tokyo: Iwanami Shoten.
1075:About the Tojō villa in Matsudo. (Japanese)
884:Tokugawa Akitake bampaku tonosama ichidaiki
839:Shibusawa Eiichi (1944). Ryūmonsha (ed.).
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511:École Polytechnique
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