For nearly 40 years, the annual Black Ships Festival has commemorated the historic achievements of Commodore Matthew C. Perry, USN, of Rhode Island. Per their official website: The “Black Ships ...

Commodore Matthew Calbraith Perry (April 10, 1794, to March 4, 1858) was the Newport-born son of Sarah Wallace (Alexander) Perry, a native of Ireland’s County Down, and mariner Christopher Perry ...

It wasn’t a surprise. As early as 1852, a Dutch agent in Nagasaki had given a report to high-level Japanese officials describing an expedition led by Matthew Calbraith Perry, consisting of “two ...

This is where Commodore Matthew Perry and his Black Ships arrived in 1854, opening Japan to the West after more than two centuries of isolation.

THE BLACK SHIP SCROLL by Oliver Statler. 80 pages. Tuttle. $5. When Commodore Matthew Perry's U.S. flotilla pried open the door of hermetic Japan in 1854, the world gasped delightedly at the ...

Mayor Shoichiro Matsuki speaks at a monument honoring Commodore Matthew C. Perry in Shimoda, Japan, May 19, 2023. The ceremony was part of the city's 84th annual Black Ship festival.

It was on this coastline that U.S. Navy Commodore Matthew Perry (1794-1858), commander in chief of the United States’ East India Squadron, first made landfall in Japan in 1853.

Also, the whites of Perry's eyes are depicted as blue. Per "Black Ships & Samurai" by John W. Dower - Chapter Two, "Perry", p. 3, Massachusetts Institute of Technology ... Artifacts of Diplomacy: ...

It wasn’t a surprise. As early as 1852, a Dutch agent in Nagasaki had given a report to high-level Japanese officials describing an expedition led by Matthew Calbraith Perry, consisting of “two ...