print email comment close Black Ships & Samurai URL: http://ocw.mit.edu/ans7870/21f/21f.027/home/ Description: This exhibit features "some 200 Japanese and American graphics depicting the 1853-1854 mission by Commodore Matthew Perry that led to the opening of Japan to the outside world." It also includes related visual narratives and "an innovative recreation of a 30-foot-long Japanese 'Black Ship Scroll' painted in 1854." Developed by Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) professors. Author: Shunk, Scott Publisher: Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Library of Congress Subject Headings: Intercultural communication in art Japan -- Foreign relations -- United States United States -- Foreign relations -- Japan United States Naval Expedition to Japan (1852-1854) LII Database Information: Record 11350 created by Sybil Finemel on 04/09/2004 Last modification on 11/25/2008 Published: 08/01/2006   Funding agency: California State Library LII Item ID: http://lii.org/cs/lii/view/item/11350