The Opening of Japan, 1852-1854
See also: Matthew Calbraith Perry and Late Tokugawa shogunateIn advance of his voyage to the Far East, Commodore Perry read widely amongst available books about Tokugawa Japan. His research also included consultation with the renowned Japanologist Philipp Franz von Siebold. Siebold spent 8 years working, teaching, and studying at the isolated Dutch island-trading post of Dejima in Nagasaki harbour, Japan, before returning to Leiden in the Netherlands.
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