High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Tokugawa Akitake ( 1853-1910) was a younger brother of the Japanese Shogun Tokugawa Yoshinobu. He was born in Komagome, Tokyo, as the 18th son of Tokugawa Nariaki. Initially lord of Aizu, he became lord of Shimizu before his departure for France. Tokugawa Akitake led the Japanese delegation to the 1867 World Fair in Paris, where Japan had its own pavilion. He was designated as special emissary to France and head of the Japanese delegation to the Paris exhibition on November 28, 1866. The mission left Yokohama on January 11, 1867, and reached Paris two months later. The fair aroused considerable interest in Japan, and allowed many visitors to come in contact with Japanese art and techniques.

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