652. Yokohama, Japan. Hon-mo-ku Sea and Beach, Showing Torii.

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Verso reads: No. 652. Hommoku Beach, with Torii, Yokohama, Japan. A little south of Yokohama is the pretty suburb of Hommoku, on the bay of Tokio, not far from Treaty Point, where Commodore Matthew Galbraith Perry achieved a grander triumph in results than his brother, Oliver Hazzard Perry, on Lake Erie. He met the enemy, and they were his friends. On July 17th, 1853, Perry left Japan after he had with pomp and ceremony delivered President Fillmore's letter to the High Japanese Commissioner at Uraga. In February of the next year Perry, with a fleet of nine steamers, returned, but he insisted upon steaming nearer to eddo, and Yokohama was the chosen spot. The oldest people of Yokohama still speak of their amazement, when they saw the wondrously large ships move swiftly without wind, tide or oars. They believed that these foreigners, were not men, but half beasts, half sorcerers, with power to tame a volcano, condense its power in their ships and control it at will. At Treaty Point, on March 8th, 1854, were exchanged the formal article of convention between the United States and Japan. A8893.

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