Black ships

The black ships (in Japanese, 黒船, kurofune ) was the name given to the Western Navire S with the Japan between XVe and XIXe centuries.

The color Noir E refers to the hull whitewashed with the wood tar and, perhaps, with smoke emitted by the boiler functioning with the coal of the American ships.

Reaction

A Kyōka (a comic poem, similar to a Waka of five lines) celebrates described the surprise and confusion generated by these ships:

See too

  • Sakoku, literally “closing of the country”

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