Perry Expedition
Event · 1853–1854
In 1853 Commodore Matthew Perry sailed into Uraga harbour at the mouth of Edo Bay with four warships and a letter from the President of the United States; the following year the shogunate formally ended its isolation1 — the usual beginning of the Bakumatsu2. Mason 2005, p. 277. ↩ Wikipedia, Bakumatsu, “Between 1853 and 1867 …”. ↩ Literatur Mason 2005: Penelope E. Mason, History of Japanese Art, 2nd, Pearson Education LTD. 2005. Wikipedia, Bakumatsu: Anon., Bakumatsu, in: Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bakumatsu (zuletzt abgerufen am 30.10.2026).