N?????er-al-Din Shah granted them an audience at the ??ams-al-??em??ra Palace and inquired about the Japanese political system, army, railways, and other matters, and had an informal meeting with them a few days later (Ruz-n??ma-ye Ir??n, no. 432, 29 ??aww??l 1292; E??tem??d-al-Sal???ana, III, p. 2009; Yoshida, pp. 143-55; tr. pp. 181-91).