伊豆旅行写真 | Izu photogragh
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One of the first things you will see upon exiting Izukyu-Shimoda Station is a scale model in the station plaza of the USS Susquehanna, the flagship of the fleet of “black ships” or kurofune, that brought the man who formally opened Japan to the West, Commodore Matthew C. Perry.
Perry’s first visit, at Uraga, at the mouth of Tokyo Bay, in July 1853, had been a show of strength, in which certain buildings ashore were destroyed by the new, exploding shell, cannons aboard the ship, convincing the Japanese that his demands for a treaty allowing commerce were serious. He returned in February 1854, this time to Shimoda, to sign the Convention of Kanagawa, to be followed up in 1858 by the much broader US-Japan Treaty of Amity and Commerce.
Historically, Shimoda had been a key inspection post for Japanese shipping from the 17th century till the early 18th, during which time the town flourished. Its history as an important port made it the Shogunate’s choice for Perry’s mid-19th century visit, as it was reassuringly distant from Edo (current day Tokyo), but still close enough for easy communication.
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