Perwakilan Iwakura

Misi Iwakura atau Misi Diplomatik Iwakura (岩倉使節団, Iwakura Shisetsudan) adalah sebuah perjalanan diplomatik Jepang di seluruh dunia, yang dilakukan pada 1871 oleh oligarki jaman Meiji.

Misi Iwakura. Kepala misinya adalah Iwakura Tomomi, tampil dalam gambar ini dengan sedang mengenakan pakaian Jepang tradisional.

Misi Iwakura mengikuti beberapa misi sebelumnya yang dikirimkan oleh Keshogunan, seperti Misi Diplomatik Jepang ke Amerika Serikat (1860), Misi Diplomatik Jepang Pertama ke Eropa (1862), dan Misi Diplomatik Jepang Kedua ke Eropa (1863).

Referensi

• The official report of the Mission compiled by Kume was published in 1878, entitled Tokumei Zenken Taishi Bei-O Kairan Jikki (特命全権大使米歐回覧実記). It is available in English as A True Account of the Ambassador Extraordinary & Plenipotentiary's Journey of Observation Through the United States of America and Europe, ISBN 4-901617-00-1.
• The Iwakura Mission in Britain, 1872 London School of Economics STICERD discussion paper IS/98/349 (March 1998)
• Nish, Ian. (1998) The Iwakura Mission to America and Europe: A New Assessment. Richmond, Surrey: Japan Library. 10-ISBN 1873410840/13-ISBN 9781873410844; 10-ISBN 9780415471794/13-ISBN 0415471796; OCLC 40410662
• Japan and the North West of England: A Special Publication to mark the 125th anniversary of the Iwakura Mission, edited by Geoffrey Broad, published by the Greater Manchester Centre for Japanese Studies (September 1997) ISBN 1-900748-00-2.

Bacaan tambahan

• Charles Lanman, ed. (1872). "The Japanese Embassy". The Japanese in America. New York: University Publishing Company. 

• Inazo (Ota) Nitobe (1891). "Japanese in America: Imperial Embassy". The intercourse between the United States and Japan; an historical sketch. Johns Hopkins Press. hlm. 162–165. 

• "Iwakura Embassy". The Far East: An Exponent of Japanese Thoughts and Affairs. Office of the Kokumin-no-tomo. 1897. 

Pranala luar

• Illustrations from the Jikki (Japanese)
• About Tsuda Umeko
• Images from the mission – "Japan discovers Europe" (German)
• "'We welcome you, Lords of the Land of the Sun!' The menu for a banquet in honor of the Iwakura Mission during the Japanese embassy's visit to Boston in 1872". Object of the Month. Massachusetts Historical Society. February 2014.  Dinner held at the Revere House hotel, Boston, USA