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INDEX
Page numbers refer to the print edition but are hyperlinked to the appropriate location in the e-book.
Note: Italic page numbers refer to tables and figures.
acrobats, 112–13, 131–32, 220
Ah Con, 108
Ah Why, 109
Ainu people, 8, 186
Aizawa, Kikutarō, 215
Aizawa, Seishisai, 71–72
Aizu domain, 157, 164, 252n47
Alcock, Rutherford: and disputes between Japanese merchants and British merchants, 31, 32, 85; on Japan’s opening of trade, 36; memoir on Japan, 123–24, 127, 129; sentencing of Moss, 51; on speed of communication, 215–16; on Yokohama, 19–20
alliance capitalism, 96–97, 99, 144
alternate-attendance system, 5, 81, 139, 165, 213
America (steamship), 170
American Civil War, 94, 106–7, 120, 136
American Presbyterian Mission, 24
American Transcontinental Railway, 106
amulets, 154
animal bone, trade in, 64
antiforeign sentiment: Black on, 78; and Dutch merchants, 73; and Edo, 77, 78, 81, 83, 92, 93, 140; Hall on, 76, 77, 83; and Russia, 71, 73; of samurai class, 61, 71–73, 76, 77–79, 83, 84, 92, 132–34, 140, 158, 208; and Satsuma domain, 76; and Shinohara Chūemon, 74–75, 76, 79, 80–81, 82; and technological development, 72; and Tokugawa shogunate, 72–73, 74, 79–80, 81, 83, 85, 91, 132, 138, 156; in Yokohama, xviii, 71–86, 89–90, 92, 93, 132–33, 140, 216
apples, 3
Arisugawa, Prince, 161
artisans, xviii–xx, 5, 6, 50, 107, 125, 136–39, 220
attacks on foreigners, 61, 71, 73–75, 77–79, 81, 84, 105. See also antiforeign sentiment
Auslin, Michael, 211
Awa province, 63
Bailey, M. Buckworth, 58, 174
Bakunin, Mikhail, 106–7
Ballagh, Margaret, 25
Bank of Japan, 6
Bankoku shinbun (News of many countries), 174
Barber, James, 30, 31, 32, 39
Bashamichi (Carriageway), 170
basket work, trade in, 20
Bateman, Hezekiah, 112, 247n78
Batteke, P. J., 61, 107–8
Battle of Sedan, 194, 214
Beasley, W. G., 211
Beato, Felice, 110–11, 125–26; Betto (groom), tattooed à la mode, 126
beggars, 45, 46, 47–48, 56–57
Benten shrine, 13, 14, 42
Benzaiten, 42
Bizen domain, 157
Black, John: on adoption of foreign customs, 178–79; on antiforeign sentiment, 78; on beggars, 47–48, 56–57; on Chinese residents of Yokohama, 53; on clothing changes, 179–80; on cotton market, 244n14; on fire in Yokohama, 145; on Richard Risley, 113; on sanitation, 183, 184
“blacks” (kuronbō), in Yokohama, 56, 57, 120, 123
The Bluff, 56
boatmen, 45, 46, 179
Bon holiday, 65, 70
Brazil, 94
broadsheets, 105, 114, 160, 175, 211
bronze: and Paris exposition of 1867, 130; trade in, 20
Brooke, John, 37–38
brothels: destruction of Miyozakicho in 1866 fire, 145; Gankirō brothel, 26–27, 58–59, 59, 60, 61; of Kanagawa, 16; Miyozakichō district of Yokohama, 12, 15–16, 17, 26, 39, 42, 58–63, 116, 144, 145, 167, 184; Yoshiwara quarter of Edo, 15–16
Brunat, Paul, 196
Brunton, Henry, 168
bu: value of, 36. See also currency
Buddhism, 154–55, 181
Bunkyū era, 81
butchering, 25, 118, 219
cabinetwork, trade in, 64
California, gold rush of, 9, 106
capital: availability of, 33–34, 237n79; Shinohara Chūemon’s access to, 32–33, 34, 40, 54, 64–65, 67, 68, 89, 97, 148, 149, 166, 236n72
charcoal, trade in, 67–70, 87, 89, 148, 210, 223–24
chicken, trade in, 30
children: theatrical troupes of, 112, 131–32; of Yokohama, 49
China: opium trade in, 37; and treaty port system, 9, 27–28, 39, 51, 106, 211
Chinese communities: in Nagasaki, 52; in Yokohama, 52–53, 59, 60, 107
Chinese compradors (business managers), 31–32, 50, 52–53
Chinese day laborers, 53
“Chinese gift” (nankin shinjō), 32
Chinese housepainters, 108–9
Chinese merchants: in Nagasaki, 8, 10; as tailors, 107–8; in Yokohama, 52–53
Chinese servants, 52
Chinese tradesmen, 53
Chō (rashamen), 61
cholera epidemics, 34–35, 51, 183, 255n129
Chōshū domain, 76–77, 109, 138, 151–52, 156–58, 160, 175
Christianity: Japanese banning of, 8, 28. See also missionaries
Chūkichi (business associate of Chūemon), 148
Chūshichi of Aogiya, 108
circus performers, 112–13, 113
City of Yedo (steamship), 170
clothing: of beggars, 47; clothing changes in Yokohama, 178–81, 186; of coolies, 23, 179; of foreigners, 72, 123; Japanese clothes makers, 108; Japanese clothing, 1, 43, 110, 124, 181–82; of Japanese performing artists, 131; of prostitutes, 58–59; Shinohara Chūemon’s pawning of wife’s kimonos, 65–66, 96, 224; of skilled laborers, 46; and Western-style tailors, 107–8, 121, 182, 199, 224; wholesale transactions of, 91
Cobb & Co. (transportation company), 171
Cocking, Samuel, 126–27
cocoons, trade in, 64
Colorado (steamship), 170
commissioners of foreign affairs (gaikoku bugyō), 11
compradors. See Chinese compradors (business managers)
Cook, Samuel, 54
coolies, xx, 23, 43, 83, 85, 179, 183
copper, trade in, 64
corruption, 31, 32, 52, 72
cotton: and global markets, 94, 95, 101, 135, 136; price of, 94, 95, 97–98, 99, 101, 135–36, 137; trade in, 6, 18, 30, 45, 86, 93, 95–96, 97, 99–100, 101, 135, 136, 137, 208–9, 210, 224
cotton cloth: production of, 6; trade in, xx, 18, 23, 63, 64, 95
cotton leggings, 1
cotton production: and American Civil War, 94, 136; decline in, 179, 205; and global markets, 94, 101, 135, 136, 137; in Kantō region, xix; in Kōshū province, 1, 3, 5, 6, 94, 95–96, 97, 101, 135–36; and Shinohara family, 6
cotton robes, 1
cotton-spinning machines, 121
cotton thread: imported cotton thread, 182; trade in, 64, 208–9, 210
cotton yarn, imported cotton yarn, 179
craftsmen, 110, 114, 127, 130
currency: and Chinese compradors, 52; complexity of currency and measurement conversions, 95; and exchange rates, 36, 137, 164; Japanese policies on, 40; monetary values, 229, 230; value of bu, 36; value of ryō, 6, 95; and yearly income levels, 33; and Yokohama gold rush, 36–37, 39
customs house, in Yokohama, 13, 14, 19, 21–22, 27, 28, 83, 93, 145, 167
daikan (shogunal superintendent), 4, 6
daimyo (feudal lords): and alternate-attendance system, 5, 81, 139, 165, 213; and demands for closing Yokohama, 86; exodus from Edo, 81–82, 139, 165; and Matsuyama domain, 151–52; miniature reconstruction of palace for Paris exposition, 130; and Mito domain, 73, 76, 133; and Nanbu domain of Ōshū, 146; and procession of Shimazu Hisamitsu, 78; and regional identity, 121; and Tokugawa shogunate, 64, 79, 93, 151–52, 157, 159; and trade, 10, 64, 93, 175; and Tsu domain, 157
debts: Brooke on, 38; defaulting on, 34; of farmers and artisans, xix; and money-lending businesses, 100; settling accounts at year’s end, 70, 71, 99, 100, 146, 155, 166; of Shinohara Chūemon, 32–33, 34, 39, 64–65, 67, 70, 71, 99–101, 146, 149–50, 153, 155–56, 166, 200, 224; women sold to cover, 62
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