SEAN MICHAEL WILSON
  • About
  • Latest News/Blog
  • Further information
  • All Books by Title
    • AX
    • Black Ships
    • Book of Five Rings
    • Breaking the 10
    • Bushido
    • Cold Mountain
    • Christmas Carol
    • Cigarette Girl
    • Demon's Sermon
    • Faceless Ghost
    • 47 Ronin 忠臣蔵
    • Fight The Power!
    • Gardening Mindfulness
    • Goodbye God
    • GFTU 120th Anniversary
    • Hagakure
    • Many Not the Few
    • Minamata Story
    • Morningside
    • Musashi
    • Orwell
    • Parecomic
    • Portraits of Violence
    • Satsuma Rebellion 西郷隆盛と西南戦争
    • Secrets of the Ninja
    • Spirit of Japan
    • Story of Lee
    • Sweeney Todd
    • Tao Te Ching
    • Tokyo + Olympics Guide
    • Wuthering Heights
    • Yakuza Moon
    • Yokai Stories
    • All Books on one page
  • Social Issue Books
  • Japanese Culture Books
  • Original Story Books
  • 日本語 Nihongo
    • 日本語の情報
    • 忠臣蔵
    • 西郷隆盛と西南戦争
    • 東京 +オリンピック
  • Digital Ebook Versions
    • 47 Ronin ebook
    • Bits and Bobs ebook
    • Book of Five Rings
    • Black Ships ebook
    • Breaking the 10 ebook
    • Bushido ebook
    • Cold Mountain ebook
    • Demon's Sermon ebook
    • Faceless Ghost ebook
    • Fight the Power ebook
    • The Garden ebook
    • Goodbye God? ebook
    • GFTU 120th Anniversary
    • Japanese Drawing Room
    • Morningside ebook
    • Musashi ebook
    • Ninja ebook
    • Parecomic ebook
    • Portraits of Violence ebook
    • Satsuma Rebellion 西郷隆盛 Ebook
    • Story of Lee ebook
    • Tao Te Ching ebook
    • Français ebooks
    • All digital books on one page
  • Français, Español, Italiano, 中文 etc
  • Sean's Publishers/Distributors
  • TV, Radio, Music
  • Film Production
  • Lectures, talks and teaching
  • Various Other Things
    • A History of Mr X
    • Anti-violence strip
    • Infograph on comics as art
    • Basic Income
    • Poems
    • Interviews and Articles
    • What did you do in the war daddy?
    • Manufacturing Consent - Illustrated
    • Blogspot page
    • Where i was born
  • Shop! Buy Sean's books
  • Contact メール
  • Fred Dixon
  • SSCC
  • About
  • Latest News/Blog
  • Further information
  • All Books by Title
    • AX
    • Black Ships
    • Book of Five Rings
    • Breaking the 10
    • Bushido
    • Cold Mountain
    • Christmas Carol
    • Cigarette Girl
    • Demon's Sermon
    • Faceless Ghost
    • 47 Ronin 忠臣蔵
    • Fight The Power!
    • Gardening Mindfulness
    • Goodbye God
    • GFTU 120th Anniversary
    • Hagakure
    • Many Not the Few
    • Minamata Story
    • Morningside
    • Musashi
    • Orwell
    • Parecomic
    • Portraits of Violence
    • Satsuma Rebellion 西郷隆盛と西南戦争
    • Secrets of the Ninja
    • Spirit of Japan
    • Story of Lee
    • Sweeney Todd
    • Tao Te Ching
    • Tokyo + Olympics Guide
    • Wuthering Heights
    • Yakuza Moon
    • Yokai Stories
    • All Books on one page
  • Social Issue Books
  • Japanese Culture Books
  • Original Story Books
  • 日本語 Nihongo
    • 日本語の情報
    • 忠臣蔵
    • 西郷隆盛と西南戦争
    • 東京 +オリンピック
  • Digital Ebook Versions
    • 47 Ronin ebook
    • Bits and Bobs ebook
    • Book of Five Rings
    • Black Ships ebook
    • Breaking the 10 ebook
    • Bushido ebook
    • Cold Mountain ebook
    • Demon's Sermon ebook
    • Faceless Ghost ebook
    • Fight the Power ebook
    • The Garden ebook
    • Goodbye God? ebook
    • GFTU 120th Anniversary
    • Japanese Drawing Room
    • Morningside ebook
    • Musashi ebook
    • Ninja ebook
    • Parecomic ebook
    • Portraits of Violence ebook
    • Satsuma Rebellion 西郷隆盛 Ebook
    • Story of Lee ebook
    • Tao Te Ching ebook
    • Français ebooks
    • All digital books on one page
  • Français, Español, Italiano, 中文 etc
  • Sean's Publishers/Distributors
  • TV, Radio, Music
  • Film Production
  • Lectures, talks and teaching
  • Various Other Things
    • A History of Mr X
    • Anti-violence strip
    • Infograph on comics as art
    • Basic Income
    • Poems
    • Interviews and Articles
    • What did you do in the war daddy?
    • Manufacturing Consent - Illustrated
    • Blogspot page
    • Where i was born
  • Shop! Buy Sean's books
  • Contact メール
  • Fred Dixon
  • SSCC
SEAN MICHAEL WILSON
Picture
Black Ships - ebook


​On the 14th of July, 1853, the USS Plymouth, Mississippi, Saratoga, and Susquehanna sailed into Yokosuka, Japan. The mysterious "Black Ships" had arrived. 

In this stirring account of a pivotal moment in modern Japanese history, award-winning author and illustrator team Sean Michael Wilson and Akiko Shimojima tell the story of the four American "Black Ships" that arrived in Japan in 1853 under the command of Commodore Perry to force Japan to open up to trade. The book compellingly portrays the apprehension and confusion of the Japanese people witnessing the Black Ships steaming into view over the horizon; the anxious response of the samurai; the cat-and-mouse game that ensued; the protracted negotiations; and the eventual agreement signed on March 31st, 1854, as the Treaty of Kanagawa. Historically accurate and with an easy-to-read visual format, Black Ships conveys the personalities of the key figures in the drama: on one side, Commodore Perry and his captains, and on the other, Shogunate officials Abe Masahiro and Hayashi Akira. Wilson and Shimojima vividly capture the atmosphere of threat and change that pervaded Japan during Bakumatsu, the final years of the Edo period, as the feudal Tokugawa shogunate took its last breaths and gave way to the new Meiji government.



Get the book here:
https://www.amazon.com/Black-Ships-Illustrated-History-Americans-ebook/dp/B01GYPMJTY/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=

Comixology
https://www.comixology.com/Black-Ships/digital-comic/492902?ref=c2VyaWVzL3ZpZXcvZGVza3RvcC9ncmlkTGlzdC9SZWNlbnRBZGRpdGlvbnM


Sean Michael Wilson - Wilson's Web