Perry Mission to Japan 1853-1854

W.G. Beasley is Professor Emeritus at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London.

• Volume 1 Introduction by W. G. BEASLEY Select Documents on Japanese Foreign Policy 1853-1868 (The Perry Convention. Documents 1-9) W. G. BEASLEY (Ed.) [London, OUP, 1955]. Plus: GRIFFIS, William E., Matthew Galbraith Perry, chapters XX.III to XXXVI [Boston, Cupples and Hurd, 1887] Volume 2 PALMER, Aaron H., Documents and facts illustrating the origin of the mission to Japan, authorized by the United States Government, May 10, 1851. [Washington, DC: Henry Polkinhorn, Printer, 1857] Plus: TOMES, Robert, Americans in Japan -An abridgement of the government narrative of the United States expedition to Japan under Commodore Perry [New York: D. Appleton & Co., 1857] Volume 3 SPALDING, J. W., The Japanese Expedition: Japan and Around the Wbrld - an account of three visits to the Japanese Empire [New York: Redfield, 1857] Volume 4 GRAFF, Henry E. (Ed) Bluejackets with Perry in Japan. A day-by-day account kept by Master Mate John R. C. Lewis and Cabin B? William B. Allen [New York: NY Public Library, 1952] Volume 5 SPROSTON,John Glendy, The Private Journal of John Glendy Sproston [Tokyo: Sophia University, 1940] Volume 6 WILLIAMS, S. Wells, A Journal of the Perry Expedition to Japan, 1853-54 [Tokyo: Transactions, Asiatic Society of Japan, Series I, Vol. XXXVII, Part 2 (1910)] Volume 7 PINEAU, Roger, The Japan Expedition, 1852-54. The Personal Journal of Commodore Matthew C. Perry [Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1968] Volume 8 YAMAGUCHI, Ken, Kinse Shiriaku; a history of Japan from the first visit of Commodore Perry in 1853 to the capture of Hakodate by the Mikado forces in 1869 (Rev. ed. Tokyo: Naigwai Shuppan Kyokwai, 1906] Plus: SATOW, Ernest (Tr),Japan 1853-1864. Genji Yume Monogatari [Tokyo: 1905] Plus: KOJIMA MATAJIRO, Commodore Perry's Expedition to Hakodate [Hakodate: Hakodate Kyodo Bunkakai, 1953]