Black Ships
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The Black Ships was the name given to Western vessels arriving in Japan in the 16th and 19th centuries.
Japanese print from 1854 describing Commodore Matthew Perry's "Black Ships".
Brooklyn Museum – Commodore Matthew Perry's "Black Ship"
Portuguese black carrack in Nagasaki, in the early 17th century.
Commodore Perry's fleet for his second visit to Japan in 1854.
Edo period
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The Edo period , also known as the Tokugawa period , is the period between 1603 and 1868 in the history of Japan, when Japan was under the rule of the Tokugawa shogunate and the country's 300 regional daimyo. Emerging from the chaos of the Sengoku period, the Edo period was characterized by economic growth, strict social order, isolationist foreign policies, a stable population, overall peace, and popular enjoyment of arts and culture, colloquially referred to as Ōedo .
Tokugawa Ieyasu, first shōgun of the Tokugawa shogunate
The San Juan Bautista is represented in Claude Deruet's painting of Hasekura Tsunenaga in Rome in 1617, as a galleon with Hasekura's flag (red manji on orange background) on the top mast.
A bird's-eye view of Nagasaki Bay, with the Dejima foreign trading post island at mid-left (1833)
Itinerary and dates of the travels of Hasekura Tsunenaga. Prior to Panama Canal, caravans carried goods across Central America.