Talk:Townsend Harris

This article is rated Start-class on Wikipedia's content assessment scale.
It is of interest to the following WikiProjects:

Biography

	Biography portal This article is within the scope of WikiProject Biography, a collaborative effort to create, develop and organize Wikipedia's articles about people. All interested editors are invited to join the project and contribute to the discussion. For instructions on how to use this banner, please refer to the documentation.BiographyWikipedia:WikiProject BiographyTemplate:WikiProject Biographybiography articles
	This article has been automatically rated by a bot or other tool because one or more other projects use this class. Please ensure the assessment is correct before removing the `\|auto=` parameter.

Japan High‑importance

This article is within the scope of WikiProject Japan, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of Japan-related articles on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the project, participate in relevant discussions, and see lists of open tasks. Current time in Japan: 03:55, May 1, 2024 (JST, Reiwa 6) (Refresh)JapanWikipedia:WikiProject JapanTemplate:WikiProject JapanJapan-related articles

High

This article has been rated as High-importance on the project's importance scale.

WikiProject Japan to do list:

Peer review: Kako River (Japan)
A-class review: None

Featured content candidates –

Articles: None
Pictures: None
Lists: None

Good article nominations: Pure Japanese, Vinland Saga (TV series), Japanese destroyer Ume (1944), Mai Fujisawa, Godzilla Minus One
Add requested images to articles that need them.
Pages for Deletion: Participate in Japan-related deletion discussions.
Improve and expand Japan-related stubs.
Create some requested articles.
Help translate an article from the Japanese Wikipedia into English.
Assess unassessed articles

International relations Low‑importance

	This article is within the scope of WikiProject International relations, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of International relations on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.International relationsWikipedia:WikiProject International relationsTemplate:WikiProject International relationsInternational relations articles
Low	This article has been rated as Low-importance on the project's importance scale.

A fact from this article was featured on Wikipedia's Main Page in the On this day section on October 4, 2020.

Okichi Saito[edit]

This article dismisses this as "largely fictitious" and does not mention it in any detail? It is the subject of film, novel[1] and tourist attractions. Why is not more information available?--ZayZayEM (talk) 05:40, 28 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

In Popular Culture: Madame Butterfly[edit]

At present, this section ends with a stand alone sentence reading: "Harris's visit to Japan is the basis for Puccini's opera 'Madame Butterfly'." This is indicated as needing citation. More to the point, this seems to be a specious assertion. Perhaps reading the article one may make that assumption (and even feel inclined to add a sentence to the article saying as much) but, in fact, Madame Butterfly takes much inspiration from the Pierre Loti novel "Madame Chysantheme." Whether Loti's novel is inspired by the life of Harris, is another question. However, to my knowledge, at the end of the 19th century, Japanese women being ruined by foreign visitors and then killing themselves was prevalent enough a pattern that it would be difficult to say definitively that Harris' singular case was the inspiration for the various stories on this theme.

For this reason, I suggest deleting this final sentence. Any opposition? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 192.218.246.92 (talk) 00:29, 8 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

It has only been a short time, but there has been no feedback about the removal of the aforementioned line at the end of the article. I take it upon myself to remove it. The original line can be find above if it becomes necessary to discuss this further. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 192.218.246.92 (talk) 04:03, 15 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

External links modified[edit]

Hello fellow Wikipedians,

I have just modified 5 external links on Townsend Harris. Please take a moment to review my edit. If you have any questions, or need the bot to ignore the links, or the page altogether, please visit this simple FaQ for additional information. I made the following changes:

When you have finished reviewing my changes, you may follow the instructions on the template below to fix any issues with the URLs.

This message was posted before February 2018. After February 2018, "External links modified" talk page sections are no longer generated or monitored by InternetArchiveBot. No special action is required regarding these talk page notices, other than regular verification using the archive tool instructions below. Editors have permission to delete these "External links modified" talk page sections if they want to de-clutter talk pages, but see the RfC before doing mass systematic removals. This message is updated dynamically through the template {{source check}} (last update: 18 January 2022).

If you have discovered URLs which were erroneously considered dead by the bot, you can report them with this tool.
If you found an error with any archives or the URLs themselves, you can fix them with this tool.

Cheers.—InternetArchiveBot (Report bug) 18:28, 26 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]