The Merchant's Tale: Yokohama and the Transformation of Japan
(Part of the Asia Perspectives: History, Society, and Culture Series)
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In April 1859, at age fifty, Shinohara Chūemon left his old life behind. Chūemon, 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 "opening" to the West, he witnessed the collapse of the Tokugawa shogunate, the civil war that followed, and the Meiji Restoration's reforms. The Merchant's...
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0231182929
ISBN13:9780231182928
Release Date:December 2017
Publisher:Columbia University Press
Length:320 Pages
Weight:1.30 lbs.
Dimensions:1.1" x 6.3" x 9.1"
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