Kawaraban News-Sheets Listing the Lords available for the defence of Japan

by Perry Expedition

$2,750 · Offered by Donald A. Heald Rare Books

A detailed, revealing group of late Tokugawa samurai reference sheets, recording the names, ranks, stipends, heraldry, standards, and service obligations through which the shogunate and Edo public understood military readiness at the moment of Perry's arrival. Commodore Matthew C. Perry anchored off Uraga, at the entrance to Edo Bay, in July 1853. His arrival made visible the vulnerability of the Tokugawa capital and produced an immediate demand for information about coastal

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