Commodore Perry's Minstrel Show by Wiley, Richard -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Title Page Contents Cast of Characters Prologue Part One: Edo

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 16. Rumors 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” 22. Angelface 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

Afterword Acknowledgments Copyright The Dzanc Books rEprint Series