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Black Ships & Samurai
Black Ships & Samurai
Commodore Perry and the
Opening of Japan (1853-1854)

On July 8, 1853, residents of feudal Japan beheld an astonishing sight; foreign warships entering their harbor under a cloud of black smoke. Commodore Matthew Perry had arrived to force the long-secluded country to open its doors.

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Yokohama Boomtown
Yokohama Boomtown
Foreigners in Treaty-Port
Japan (1859-1872)

This window on the imagined life of foreigners in Japan at the dawn of the modern era is based on the catalogue of the 1990 exhibition at the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Yokohama: Prints from Nineteenth-Century Japan, by Ann Yonemura.

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Throwing Off Asia
Throwing Off Asia
Woodblock Prints of the Sino-Japanese War
(1894-1895) and the Russo-Japanese
War (1904-5)

 Japan’s mid-19th century adoption of an agenda of industrialization and “Westernization” is illustrated in wartime woodblock prints. Produced in association with the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

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Asia Rising
Asia Rising
Japanese Postcards of the
Russo-Japanese War (1904-5)

 Imperial Japan’s 1904-5 war against Tsarist Russia changed the global balance of power. The first war to be widely illustrated in postcards, the Japanese view of the conflict is presented here. Produced in association with the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

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Yellow Promise/Yellow Peril
Yellow Promise/Yellow Peril
Foreign Postcards of the
Russo-Japanese War (1904-5)

Imperial Japan’s 1904-5 war against Tsarist Russia changed the global balance of power. The first war to be depicted internationally in postcards,
it is captured here in these dramatic images. Produced in association with the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

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Ground Zero 1945
Ground Zero 1945
Pictures by Atomic Bomb Survivors

These drawings and paintings by Japanese survivors of the atomic bomb were created more than a quarter century after the bombs fell on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945. They are provided by the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum.

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Visualizing Japan: six units by John W. Dower
MIT Visualizing Cultures Image Database
MIT Visualizing Cultures Image Database

 Search the Visualizing Cultures units for images from the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; and the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum.

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