Abstract
The authors refer to an interesting episode from the life of the famous German businessman and archaeologist Heinrich Schliemann, known throughout the world thanks to large-scale excavations at the site of ancient Troy, as well as on the Peloponnese Peninsula. The article details Henry's trip to Japan, which he undertook as part of a round-the-world trip in 1864–1866. As part of this visit, he visits the Yokohama, Hachioji and Edo (modern Tokyo) with it’s the Kabuki theaters, tea houses, shops, ikebana schools, etc. There he was witnessing the local customs that were extremely amazing to a person of European morality. At the end of his three-week stay in the Land of the Rising Sun, he departs on the English merchant steamer “Queen of Avon” across the Pacific to San Francisco.
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