British merchant at banquet in a foreign trading house in Yokohama, Japan, being waited on by a Chinese man, Thai chef in the background, 1861. Trade Commerce International Japanese - from our story 'The Barbarians Arrive: Japanese Depictions of Westerners (1860s)'

UNSPECIFIED - CIRCA 1754: British merchant at banquet in a foreign trading house in Yokohama, Japan, being waited on by a Chinese man, Thai chef in the background, 1861. Trade Commerce International Japanese (Photo by Universal History Archive/Getty Images)

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