1878年,清政府向日本派出以广东人何如璋为公使的外交使团,这是中日关系史上的第一次,因此,迅速受到日本朝野的注意。7月2日,日本修史馆史官宫岛诚一郎到清朝驻日公使馆访问。那时,中日两国刚刚建立邦交不久,中国使团还没有使馆,暂时借住在东京的一座僧院里。参加座谈的除公使何如璋外,还有同是广东人的参赞黄 In 1878, the Qing government sent a diplomatic delegation to Japan under the assumption that a Chinese named He Rizhang was an envoy. This was the first time in the history of Sino-Japanese relations that the Qing government was promptly caught the attention of Japan’s ruling and opposition parties. On July 2, Shinichiro Miyajima, a historian of Japan’s History Museum, visited the Qing government’s Japanese embassy in Japan. At that time, just after the establishment of diplomatic relations between China and Japan, the Chinese delegation still did not have an embassy and temporarily resided in a monastery in Tokyo. Apart from the Minister He Ruzhang, who attended the forum, there was also Huang, a Cantonese counselor