Oh count , it ’s just a caboodle of substantial samurai , chill out with their katanas in front of the Sphinx . No big deal .
Yesterday we look atthe eccentric juncture a gang of nineteenth - century baseball players threw baseball at the Sphinx . Today — thanks to a peak from io9 reader Alexander — we turn back the clock to 1864 , when a group of Nipponese emissaries ona diplomatic missionto Europe posed for a picture in Giza , deck out in their full samurai regalia . explain archaeologistNicholas Reevesof the Metropolitan Museum of Art of this blastoff by photographerAntonio Beato :
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[ The mission ’s ] aim was to persuade France to agree to the closing of the port of Yokohama to foreign trade , and allow Japan to retreat into isolation once more . The mission inevitably run out . In 1864 , en route to Paris , the Ikeda mission visited Egypt . The stay was memorialised in one of 19th - century photography ’s most extraordinary look-alike — the embassy ’s members , dressed in winged kamishimo costume and jingasa hats , carrying their feared foresighted ( katana ) and short ( wakizashi ) swords , standing before the Giza Sphinx .
Or to rephrase this — in case the awesomeness of this word picture has n’t somehow sunk in yet — you only see samurai hang out at the Sphinx in glitchy colonnade game in the dusty corners of dollar movie theater . And guess what ? world has pop in the quarter . The only picture that could possibly trump this is a shot of a lot of drunk cowboys from the 1800s with giant mustache who fell asleep on a schooner and woke up on Easter Island .
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