Books

Barr, Pat. The Coming of the Barbarians: A Story of Western Settlement in Japan 1853-1870, New York, Dutton, 1967.

Barrows, Edward Morley. The exploits of Matthew Calbraith Perry: The Great Commodore. Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Co, 1935.

Blumberg, Rhoda. Commodore Perry in the Land of the Shogun. New York: Lothrop, Lee & Shepard, 1985.

Feifer, George. Breaking Open Japan: Commodore Perry, Lord Abe, and American imperialism in 1853. New York: Smithsonian Books/Collins, 2006.

Icenhower, Joseph Bryan. Perry and the open door to Japan; an American commander ends centuries of Japanese isolation. New York: F. Watts, 1973.

Orrmont, Arthur. The Indestructible Commodore Matthew Perry. New York: J. Merrner, 1962.

Schroeder, John H. Matthew Calbraith Perry: Antebellum Sailor and Diplomat. Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 2001.

Wiley, Peter Booth. Yankees in the Land of the Gods: Commodore Perry and the Opening of Japan. New York: Viking, 1990.

Articles

Dupree, A. Hunter, Science vs. the Military: Dr. James Morrow and the Perry Expedition, The Pacific Historical Review, vol. 22, no. 1, (1953), pp. 29–37.

Feifer, George. Perry and Pearl: The Unintended Consequence. World Policy Journal , Fall, 2007, Vol. 24, No. 3 (Fall, 2007), pp. 103-110.

Fullilove, Courtney. "Gift and Gunboat: Meanings of Exchange in the Perry Expedition." Diplomatic History 42.1 (2018): 90–108.

Hones, Sheila and Yasuo Endo. "History, distance and text: narratives of the 1853–1854 Perry expedition to Japan." Journal of Historical Geography 32.3 (2006): 563–578.

Jansen, Marius B. "The Opening of Japan," Japan Review , 1991, No. 2 (1991), pp. 191-202.

Keith, Jeffrey A. Civilization, Race, and the Japan Expedition's Cultural Diplomacy, 1853–1854. Diplomatic History, April 2011, Vol. 35, No. 2 (APRIL 2011), 179-202.

Pass, Michael B. A Black Ship on Red Shores. Acadiensis: Journal of the History of the Atlantic Region, Autumn 2020, Vol. 49, No. 2, 58-86.

Saeki, Chizuru. The Perry Centennial Celebration: A Case Study in U.S.-Japanese Cultural Diplomacy. International Social Science Review, Vol. 80, No. 3/4 (2005), pp. 137-150.

Accounts of the Expedition Crew and Officers

With the intense interest in the Perry Expedition, many of the individuals involved wrote accounts of the voyage.

Morrow, James, and Allan B. Cole. (1947). A Scientist with Perry in Japan : the Journal of Dr. James Morrow. Edited by Allan B. Cole. Chapel Hill: the University of North Carolina Press.
Sewall, John S. (1905). "The Logbook of the Captain's Clerk: Adventures in the China Seas, Bangor, Maine: Chas H. Glass & Co." Chicago: R.R. Donnelly & Sons, 1995/
With Commodore Perry to Japan : the journal of William Speiden Jr., 1852-1855.
Speiden, William and John Amadeus Wolter (Editor), David A. Ranzan (Editor), John J. McDonough (Editor) Summary:This is an account of Commodore Matthew Calbraith Perry's expedition to Japan through the eyes of a sixteen-year-old purser's clerk of the USS Mississippi Print Book, English, 2013 Publisher: Naval Institute Press, Annapolis, Maryland, 2013
Breevort, James Carson. Figures of Japanese Fish: Taken from Recent Specimens by the Artists of the U.S. Japan Expedition. 1856.

Fiction

Shimazaki, Tōson translated by William E. NaffBefore the Dawn. University of Hawai'i Press, 1987.
Wiley, Richard. Commodore Perry's Minstrel Show. University of Texas Press, 2007.

Film

For all the changes that followed the Perry Expedition, cinematic representations of the Commodore and the opening of Japan are rare.
The Bushido Blade, directed by Tom Kotani, 1981.
Samurai Marathon, directed by Bernard Rose. 2019.

Anime

Commodore Perry (or an obvious analogue) shows up with some regularity in anime, usually for comedic effect.

Bludgeoning Angel Dokuro-chan, season 1, episode 3, "New Cinema Paradise! Dokuro-chan!"

Dagashi Kashi, season 1, episode 11, "Cola Gum, You and... / Miyako Kombu, Ramune and..."

Denki Gai, season 1, episode 4, "King of Pop."

Samurai Champloo, Season 1, Episode 23, "Baseball Blues"

Zoku Sayonara Zetsubou-Sensei, Episode 2, "When You Opened Up Your Bangs for the First Time"

Theater

Pacific Overtures, Steven Sondheim, 1976.