Black Ships
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The Black Ships were the names given to both Portuguese merchant ships and American warships arriving in Japan in the 16th and 19th centuries, respectively.
A Japanese print from 1854 describing Commodore Matthew Perry's "Black Ships".
Brooklyn Museum – Commodore Matthew Perry's "Black Ship"
A Portuguese black carrack in Nagasaki, in the early 17th century.
Commodore Perry's fleet for his second visit to Japan in 1854.
Carrack
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A carrack is a three- or four-masted ocean-going sailing ship that was developed in the 14th to 15th centuries in Europe, most notably in Portugal and Spain. Evolving from the single-masted cog, the c
Black Ships
…and 19th centuries, respectively. In 1543, the Portuguese initiated the first contacts, establishing a trade route linking Goa to Nagasaki. The large carracks engaged in this trade had the hull painted black with pitch, and the term came to represent all Western vessels. In 1639, after suppressing a rebellion…
The Portuguese carrack Santa Catarina do Monte Sinai and other ships, painting by Joachim Patinir. The voyage of Infanta Beatriz, second daughter of King Manuel of Portugal, to Villefranche for her marriage to Charles III, Duke of Savoy, in 1521.
c. 1558 painting of a large carrack attributed to Pieter Bruegel the Elder
Replica of a small 15th-century or 16th-century carrack at Vila do Conde, Portugal
Naval battle involving carracks and galleys