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Black ships : illustrated Japanese history--The Americans arrive
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Overview
\"On the 14th of July, 1853, the USS Plymouth, Mississippi, Saratoga, and Susquehanna sailed into Yokosuka, Japan. The mysterious 'Black Ships' had arrived. In this stirring account of a pivotal moment in modern Japanese history, award-winning author and illustrator team Sean Michael Wilson and Akiko Shimojima tell the story of the four American 'Black Ships' that arrived in Japan in 1853 under the command of Commodore Perry to force Japan to open up to trade. The book compellingly portrays the apprehension and confusion of the Japanese people witnessing the Black Ships steaming into view over the horizon; the anxious response of the samurai; the cat-and-mouse game that ensued; the protracted negotiations; and the eventual agreement signed on March 31st, 1854, as the Treaty of Kanagawa. Historically accurate and with an easy-to-read visual format, Black Ships conveys the personalities of the key figures in the drama: on one side, Commodore Perry and his captains, and on the other, Shogunate officials Abe Masahiro and Hayashi Akira. Wilson and Shimojima vividly capture the atmosphere of threat and change that pervaded Japan during Bakumatsu, the final years of the Edo period, as the feudal Tokugawa shogunate took its last breaths and gave way to the new Meiji government\"-- Provided by publisher.
Publisher
North Atlantic Books
Subject
Perry, Matthew Calbraith, 1794-1858 Comic books, strips, etc.
/ United States Naval Expedition to Japan (1852-1854) Comic books, strips, etc.
/ COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS / Nonfiction.
/ United States Foreign relations Japan Comic books, strips, etc.
/ Japan Foreign relations United States Comic books, strips, etc.
/ Japan History Restoration, 1853-1870 Comic books, strips, etc.
/ Japan Foreign relations 1600-1868 Comic books, strips, etc.
ISBN
9781623170912
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| Call Number | Copies | Material | Location |
|---|---|---|---|
| DS881.8.W55 2017 | 1 | BOOK | AUTOSTORE |
