Matthew C. Perry - The Perry Expedition: Opening of Japan, 1852-1854

The Perry Expedition: Opening of Japan, 1852-1854

See also: Perry Expedition and Bakumatsu

In advance of his voyage to the Far East, Commodore Perry read widely amongst available books about Tokugawa Japan. His research even included consultation with the increasingly well-known Japanologist Philipp Franz von Siebold, who had lived on the Dutch island of Dejima for eight years before retiring to Leiden in the Netherlands.

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