The Japanese, according to members of the Perry Expedition, were very fond of music, both singing and dancing. Heine wrote "the Japanese seem to love music. When the commodore brought our choir ashore at Shimoda, half the city turned out to hear them. The next time he landed, without the choir, many Shimodans followed him and by all sorts of signs let him know how much they liked the signing and how they wished he would bring the choir along again." Perry also put on a "minstrel show" in which there was both dancing and singing and this was equally a hit among the Japanese.

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