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After roughly two years of negotiations and difficulties, on [[1858]]/7/12 (July 29), he was finally able to convince the [[Tokugawa shogunate]] to agree to a treaty, opening a number of [[treaty ports|ports]] to US trade, and granting Americans a degree of [[extraterritoriality]], among other points.
After roughly two years of negotiations and difficulties, on [[1858]]/7/12 (July 29), he was finally able to convince the [[Tokugawa shogunate]] to agree to a treaty, opening a number of [[treaty ports|ports]] to US trade, and granting Americans a degree of [[extraterritoriality]], among other points.
Harris took up residence at Zenpuku-ji in the Azabu neighborhood of Edo in [[1859]]/5 (June), at the same time as the British consul [[Rutherford Alcock]] established himself at Tôzen-ji in Takanawa, and the French consul [[Gustave Duchesne de Bellecourt]] set himself up at Saikai-ji in Mita.<ref>Marco Tinello, "The termination of the Ryukyuan embassies to Edo : an investigation of the bakumatsu period through the lens of a tripartite power relationship and its world," PhD thesis, Università Ca' Foscari Venezia (2014), 187-188.</ref>
He returned to the United States in [[1862]]/4, after more than five and a half years in Japan. His time in Japan and relationship with a [[geisha]] named [[Okichi]] has been fictionalized in numerous plays and films, including Madame Butterfly, and Berthold Brecht's "The Judith of Shimoda."
He returned to the United States in [[1862]]/4, after more than five and a half years in Japan. His time in Japan and relationship with a [[geisha]] named [[Okichi]] has been fictionalized in numerous plays and films, including Madame Butterfly, and Berthold Brecht's "The Judith of Shimoda."