Talk:Townsend Harris

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

In Popular Culture: Madame Butterfly
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)

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)

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