Commodore Perry’s Minstrel Show

Contents

1. Dutch Learning

2. Oh, What I’ll Find There I Don’t Know

3. Accident upon Accident

4. Whitman Sampler

5. Approach of the Outside World

6. Tell Him I’m in Mourning!

7. He Didn’t Care about the Neighbors Anymore

8. Don’t Get Up on My Account

9. A Word Overheard Is a Word Forgotten

10. The Pavilion of Timelessness

11. Where Has My Heart Gone?

12. A Fly in the Ointment

13. Three Tulips in a Boat

14. Under the Falling Wisteria

15. The Experiment of America

17. Fine Mornin’, Ain’t It?

18. Commodore Perry’s Anxiety

PART TWO: ODAWARA

19. Everything Wrong Everywhere

20. Saved from the Realm of Absolute Calamity

21. “Kambei”

23. Hired for a Bad Cause

24. Whoa, Nellie

25. Come to Me, My Dear, Come

26. I Guess There’s Hooligans Every Damned Where

27. Twenty Questions

28. Allergic to Pain

29. Einosuke’s Anger

30. Japan’s Conundrum

31. An Earlier Walker than His Uncle

32. Extra Circumspect, From Now On

33. Behold, Your Defeated Lord

34. We Can’t Have This

35. Is It Easier to Go or Be Left Behind?

36. Incense or Prosthetics

37. Irony Provides Relief

38. A Fetish without Many Followers

PART THREE: SHIMODA

39. Keiki and the Planting, Ueno and the River Trout

40. The Wind and Intransigence

41. Hide This in Your Wagon

42. The Omen of the Crows

43. I Have Not, Particularly, Saved Myself

44. Life Is Short. Fall in Love

45. Strength and Flexibility

46. I Am Taking You Home

47. Knowable People

48. Not Selling Chestnuts

49. Outraged Periods and Exclamation Points

50. It’s a Poor Life Anyway

51. Alas, We Axe Defeated