This photo is of a Japanese embassy mission en-route to France, where they seeked to obtain French agreement to the closure of the Yokohama harbour to foreign trade. They didn’t succeed.
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At the time, France was ruled by Emperor Napoleon III who was the nephew of Napoleon I who had fought an early battle nearby: The Battle of the Pyramids. Of course Napoleon III was deposed during the Franco-Prussian War, 6 years after this photo was taken.