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==Preparations and Arrangements==
==Preparations and Arrangements==
The French government first invited the Japanese government (i.e. the Tokugawa shogunate) to exhibit at the fair in [[1864]]. A document prepared by Foreign Affairs official Kurimoto Jo'un in connection with this request has been cited as the first coining of the Japanese word ''hakurankai'' 博覧会 ("exposition").<ref>Jennifer Harris, "'Odd and Bizarre': The Export of Japanese Aesthetics to Nineteenth-Century Australia," in Harris and Tets Kimura (eds.), ''Exporting Japanese Aesthetics'', Brighton: Sussex Academic Press (2020), 56-57n14, citing Saito Doshin, "The Policies of the Meiji Government in the Promotion of the Craft Industries and Export Trade," in Nasser Khalili Collection of Japanese Art et al (eds.), ''Meiji no takara: Treasures of imperial Japan'', London: Kibo Foundation (1995).</ref>
The seed of the idea that Satsuma might present at the Fair began in [[1865]], when [[Godai Tomoatsu]], along with two other Satsuma officials, was traveling in Europe seeking to expand Satsuma's commercial ties with European partners. After meeting the Belgian/French merchant [[Charles Comte de Montblanc]] and securing an agreement with him for mines, factories, and certain other arrangements in Satsuma, Godai was also offered the possibility of Montblanc helping to arrange for Satsuma to display its products at the Fair, which would be taking place two years later. Originally, the exposition organizers rejected Satsuma's proposal to display separately, but in the end, Satsuma managed to display its goods in the separate display of the supposedly independent [[Ryukyu Kingdom|Ryûkyû Kingdom]].
The seed of the idea that Satsuma might present at the Fair began in [[1865]], when [[Godai Tomoatsu]], along with two other Satsuma officials, was traveling in Europe seeking to expand Satsuma's commercial ties with European partners. After meeting the Belgian/French merchant [[Charles Comte de Montblanc]] and securing an agreement with him for mines, factories, and certain other arrangements in Satsuma, Godai was also offered the possibility of Montblanc helping to arrange for Satsuma to display its products at the Fair, which would be taking place two years later. Originally, the exposition organizers rejected Satsuma's proposal to display separately, but in the end, Satsuma managed to display its goods in the separate display of the supposedly independent [[Ryukyu Kingdom|Ryûkyû Kingdom]].
