The merchant's tale Yokohama and the transformation of Japan
In April 1859, at age fifty, Shinohara Chuemon left his old life behind. Chuemon, a well-off farmer in his home village, departed for the new port city of Yokohama, where he remained for the next fourteen years. There, as a merchant trading with foreigners in the aftermath of Japan's 1853 "...
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New York
Columbia University Press
[2018]
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| Schriftenreihe: | Asia perspectives: history, society, and culture
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