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[edit] Plausible relevance here?

Sir George Sansom in The Western World and Japan (New York 1949) says:

• "The outbreak of the Anglo-Chinese war of 1840 had made a deep impression throughout the Far East, but particularly in Japan. The naval strength that had enabled an English squadron to destroy Chinese warships without loss to itself came as a great surprise to most Japanese. Extraordinary rumors were circulated, and repeated by serious scholars, such as a report that the English navy was composed of 25,860 vessels. A scholar named Mineta published a book called Kaigai Shinwa, or New Tales from Overseas. This work contains an illustration depicting the English fleet assembled below London Bridge for the expedition to China. There is a great forest of masts extending to the horizon, and immense crowds throng the embankment. It is interesting to reflect that at this time probably not one Englishman in a thousand knew or cared about the China war, and in general the Japanese seem to have had very mistaken notions as to the British attitude towards Japan."

Perhaps this could be incorporated in context of Hayashi's "Survey of Intercourse" (Tsūkō ichiran), a compilation of diplomatic precedents developed during the years of the Tokugawa shogunate?<.ref>Cullen, L.M. (2003). A History of Japan, 1582-1941. pp. 173-174.<./ref> --Ooperhoofd (talk) 15:31, 26 December 2007 (UTC)