Note 28 — Chapter XXXI · PANIC IN YEDO. RECEPTION OF THE PRESIDENT’S LETTER.

Ota Dō Kuan the founder of Yedo (Gate of the Bay) in the fifteenth century, wrote in the summer-house of his castle a poem, said to have been extant in 1854, and to have been pointed out as fulfilled by Perry: “To my gate ships will come from the far East, Ten thousand miles.” —Dixon’s Japan, p. 218.