solved An excellent web-resource on Early Modern and Modern Japan is

An excellent web-resource on Early Modern and Modern Japan is the “Visualizing Cultures” website through MIT by the historian John Dower. Dower uses images from both Japan and Western sources to study how the Japanese saw themselves and saw Westerners, and how Westerners saw the Japanese. Read the following short essay on the expedition of Commodore Perry to open up Japan.https://visualizingcultures.mit.edu/black_ships_and_samurai/bss_essay01.htmlWhat lessons and information can we draw from these images on this website showing how the Japanese viewed the arrival of Americans in Japan? What do they show us about this period of the early Meiji when the Japanese were embracing Western culture? How might the “Chindon-ya” illustrate some of these trends?