Media
かわら版・新聞錦絵、小野秀雄コレクション、東京大学 Kawara-ban, Shinbun Nishiki-e collection, University of Tokyo The site offers color news prints in 19th century as well as Edo period broad sheets.
Tokyo Eiri shinbun. March 4, 1888
幕末明治のメディアー新聞、錦絵、引札(Media in the late Edo and Meiji era)
Transition
Zuroku Bei-O kairan jikki (Illustrated true account of the observations of the ambassadors plenipotentiary of America and Europe)
Commodore Perry and Black ships
A paper by Commodore M.C. Perry, U.S.N., read before the American Geographical and Statistical Society at a meeting held March 6th, 1856.
Map of the Japan Islands, copied from von Siebolds with slight additions & corrections, by the U.S. Japan Expedition and other authories ; compiled by order of Commodore M.C. Perry, U.S.N.
Perry, Matthew Calbraith, 1794-1858. Additional correspondence: Guide.
An account of Commodore Perry's second visit to Japan in 1854 : manuscript, [1854]
Remarks concerning Japan's defenses and Commodore Perry : manuscript, [1853-1854]
Commodore Perry at 6o, by Morihiro in 1854
Modernization
Exposition, where the modern technology of the time was exhibited, NDL
Birth of the Constitution of Japan, NDL
井上探景画、憲法発布式之図 Promulgation of the Japanese Imperial Constituion, 1889