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Description: A photograph of Commodore Matthew Perry in 1855 juxtaposed with a Japanese portrait of him. When Perry’s squadron arrived in Edo Bay (Tokyo), the Japanese initially ordered him to leave. Japanese writers had long warned of the “barbarians of the west” who with “squinting eyes and limping feet” sought to override the “noble nations” of Asia.
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