Convention of Kanagawa
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The Convention of Kanagawa, also known as the Kanagawa Treaty or the Japan–US Treaty of Peace and Amity, was a treaty signed between the United States and the Tokugawa Shogunate on March 31, 1854. Sig
Japanese copy of the Convention of Kanagawa, ratified February 21, 1855
Monument to the Convention of Kanagawa near Yokohama Kaigan Church
Monument to the signing of the treaty, Yokohama Archives of History
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Sakoku
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Sakoku was the isolationist foreign policy of the Japanese Tokugawa shogunate under which, during the Edo period, relations and trade between Japan and other countries were severely limited, and almos
Convention of Kanagawa
…Tokugawa Shogunate on March 31, 1854. Signed under threat of force, it effectively meant the end of Japan's 220-year-old policy of national seclusion (sakoku) by opening the ports of Shimoda and Hakodate to American vessels. It also ensured the safety of American castaways and established the position of an…
A Buddhist statue with a hidden crucifix on the back, used by Christians in Japan to hide their real beliefs
A beacon on Taketomi, one of the Sakishima Beacons constructed in 1644 to monitor foreign shipping
A Japanese woodcut of Napoleon in captivity on Saint Helena (1815). The Japanese were so isolated that the artist depicted these British soldiers wearing the armor and weapons of 16th century Portuguese.
A model of the Dutch trading post on Dejima Island