"Americans Japan Fiction." . . "FICTION / General" . . "Minstrels." . . "Americans." . . "Manners and customs." . . "United States Naval Expedition to Japan." . . . . . "1600 - 1868" . . "United States Naval Expedition to Japan (1852-1854)" . . . . . "After two minstrels, Ace and Ned, are hired to perform at a treaty-signing ceremony between the United States and Japan in 1854, they are unwittingly made part of a Japanese plot against America, and they flee across Japan to escape." . . . . "Fiction"@en . "Fiction" . . . "Commodore Perry's minstrel show : a novel" . . . . . . . "Historical fiction" . "Historical fiction"@en . . . . "Commodore Perry's Minstrel Show is the prequel to Richard Wiley's PEN/Faulkner Award-winning novel, Soldiers in Hiding. A sword-swinging page-turner infused with a heady mix of Japanese etiquette, American ideals, and Machiavellian philosophy, Wiley's novel sparkles as it shapes history into an enlightened drama of the earliest moments of globalization."@en . . . . . . . . "Commodore Perry's minstrel show a novel"@en . . "Commodore Perry's Minstrel show"@en . "Electronic books"@en . . "Japan" . . "Japan." . "Minstrels Fiction." . .