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* {{cite book|title=The intercourse between the United States and Japan; an historical sketch|author= Inazo (Ota) Nitobe|publisher= Johns Hopkins Press|year= 1891|chapterurl=http://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015041625578?urlappend=%3Bseq=178|chapter=Japanese in America: Imperial Embassy|pages=162-165 }}
* {{cite book|title=The Far East: An Exponent of Japanese Thoughts and Affairs|year=1897|publisher=Office of the Kokumin-no-tomo|chapter=Iwakura Embassy|chapterurl= http://books.google.com/books?id=22kVAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA58}}
