First Official Samurai Embassador to Mexico
Thursday, January 25th, 2007Detail of Hasekura’s portrait during his mission in Rome in 1615, by Claude Deruet, Coll. Borghese, Rome, from wikipedia.
On January 25, in 1614, almost 400 years ago, samurai Hasekura Tsunenaga was the first official Japanese Embassador to set foot on the Americas. First stop? Acapulco Mexico of course!
What’s left of him today? A few [...]