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by Simon Partner


  Simmons, Duane, 52, 185

  Singapore, 177, 178, 194

  slavery, 63, 94, 107, 120, 123, 145

  smashing (uchikowashi), xix

  Smith, Herbert, 194

  Smith, Thomas, 209

  Smith, T. S., 108

  Smith, W. H., 108

  smuggling, 38, 51, 93

  Snow, John, 183

  soap, trade in, 64

  socks (tabi), 49, 88–89, 98, 101, 108

  soldiers, 53–54, 55, 56

  Sonnō Jōi (Revere the Emperor, Expel the Barbarian) movement, 72, 76–77, 90

  steamships, 120, 169–70, 171, 177, 186, 194, 212

  Steele, William, 211

  street entertainers, 45, 48

  Suez Canal, 170, 194

  sugar, 48, 53, 120, 136, 182, 196

  Sugimoto Etsu, 181

  Sumidagawa troupe, 112

  surume (dried squid), 102

  Sutherland & Co., 171

  Suzuki Tokujirō, 171

  sweets, trade in, 64

  Tadachō Itchōme, 75

  Tadaya Shinden marshes, 75

  Taiping Rebellion, 51

  Tajima Yahei, 172

  Taka, 61

  Takahashi Korekiyo, 109–10

  Takasaki, 198

  Takasuya Seibei, 34

  Takayama Kōsuke, 171

  Takeda Kane, 59–60

  Takeda Katsuyori, 4

  Takeda Shingen, 4

  Takeda family, 4

  Takeuchi Jisaburō, 109

  Taki, 62

  talismans, 154–55

  taxes and taxation: and domains, 121; on Edo merchant houses, 152; and Kōshū province, 190–91; land-tax system, 14, 188, 190–91; and Tokugawa shogunate, 139

  tea: drinking practices, 2, 20, 24, 41, 48; as export commodity, 33, 105–6; foreign merchants’ demand for, 63, 89, 137; Gankirō Tea House, 59; and global markets, 137, 219; Japanese agents buying, 52; price of, 137, 195; production of, xix, 2, 63; tea ceremonies, 127; tea shops, 21, 41, 45; as trade product, 21, 63, 64, 65, 76, 89, 92, 93, 105, 148, 168, 198, 219

  teahouses: prostitutes in, 61–62; teahouse girls, 61; and Tōkaidō highway, 16; in Yokohama, 26

  technological development: and antiforeign sentiment, 72; and Japanese nationalism, 123, 130, 219; and postal services, 168, 176–77; and Shinohara Chūemon’s use of private couriers, 95, 98–99, 163–64, 169, 176, 216; and telegraph, 98, 168, 177–78, 194, 197, 212, 215, 216; and trade, xx, 10; and transportation, 98–99, 106, 166–67, 169–74, 177, 178, 212; and Yokohama, xviii, xix, xx, 117–18, 120, 121, 140, 168, 174, 212, 215

  telegraph, 98, 168, 172, 177–78, 194, 197, 212, 215, 216

  tenant farmers, 136

  Tenpō recession, 62

  Teradaya Inn, 76

  Terake Kanpachi, 88

  Tetsuwari troupe, 112

  Tezuka Seigorō, 44

  time: awareness of, xx, 99, 123, 124, 214, 215; Shinohara Chūemon’s perceptions of, 94, 98–99, 163–64, 191, 215

  tobacco: production of, 3, 5, 6; trade in, 18, 30, 63, 64

  Toba-Fushimi battle, 152, 156, 157–59, 217–18, 252n47

  Tobe, 13, 14

  Tochigi, 133

  Tōdō Takayuki, 157

  Tōjin Okichi, 15

  Tōjirō, 62

  Tōkaidō highway, 1, 11, 16, 47, 49, 74, 78, 171, 172, 178

  Tōkōin, Lady, 165

  Tokugawa Iesada, 158

  Tokugawa Ieyasu, 4

  Tokugawa Yoshinobu, 140, 151–52, 157–58, 160–61, 217, 218

  Tokugawa family, 4–5, 9, 72, 81, 158

  Tokugawa shogunate: administrative system of, 44, 79, 121–23; and antiforeign sentiment, 72–73, 74, 79–80, 81, 83, 85, 91, 132, 138, 156; and Benten festival in Yokohama, 42; diplomatic mission to Europe, 127–29; economic structure of, 209–10; and Edo, 5, 10, 11, 72, 133; and Exposition universelle d’art et d’industrie in Paris, 129–30; financial affairs of, 10, 22, 137, 138, 214; foreign policy of, xviii, 8–10, 11, 39, 213–14; and imperial loyalism, 156; legacies of, 208; overthrow of, xviii, 109, 123, 139, 151, 152, 156, 157, 159, 213; political activism of women in, 211; and political destabilization, 132–35, 138–39, 140, 156; relations with foreigners, 81–86, 91–92, 123; and reverence for emperor, 72, 217–18; social order of, 45–47, 120–21, 132, 156, 187, 188, 189, 203, 213, 216–17, 218; and U.S. treaty relations, 9–10; and utility of newspapers, 175; weakness of, 80, 156

  Tokyo: Edo renamed as, 161; as imperial capital, 214; railway line to Yokohama, 166–67, 171, 172–74, 214, 218; rickshaws of, 171, 172; and transportation, 166–67, 170–74; Tsukiji district of, 170; Western-style construction in, 168. See also Edo

  Tolstoguzov, Sergey, 250n135

  Tomioka silk filature, 196

  ton’ya (wholesaler guilds), 12, 91–92, 104, 199

  Tosa domain, 76, 152, 157

  tourism, and Yokohama, xviii, 49–50, 105, 107, 120

  trade disputes, 30–32

  tradesmen, 50, 53, 107

  trade statistics, 105, 227

  Treaty of Amity and Commerce, 9–10

  Treaty of Kanagawa, 9, 11

  treaty port system: and capital shortages, 33, 237n79; and China, 9, 27–28, 39, 51, 106, 211; conditions of, 51, 107, 140, 156, 180, 211; and demand for gold, 36–39; demands for closing of, 79, 85, 86, 91, 132–33, 140, 213, 214, 216; and radical equalization, 212–13

  Tsu domain, 157

  Tsushima domain, 8

  United Service Club, 180

  United States: Civil War, 94, 106–7, 120, 136; Japanese land reform of 1946, 188; military forces in Yokohama, 56; and telegraph, 177; treaty relations with Japan, 9, 39; western expansion of, 9

  Unusual Stories of the Five Nations in Yokohama (Chinji gokakoku Yokohama hanashi), 115

  Utada village, 134

  Utagawa Sadahide: Banquet at a Foreign Mercantile House in Yokohama, 119; Complete Picture of the Great Harbor of Yokohama, 23; Foreign Circus in Yokohama, 113; Picture of Newly Opened Port of Yokohama in Kanagawa, 29

  vaccinations, 184, 186

  vagrants, 50–51, 56–57

  van Reed, E. W., 33

  vegetables, 3, 24, 25, 30, 64

  village administration, 14, 189

  Vyse, F. Howard, 61, 73

  Wakao, Ippei, 136

  Wakisawa Kinjirō, 108

  Walsh, Hall & Co., 145

  Walthall, Anne, 211

  Watanabe Zenbei, 108

  Watase village, 198

  watchmakers, 109

  Waters, Neil, 211

  wax, trade in, 64

  weights and measures, 95, 231

  Western imperialism, in Asia, 8–9, 39, 211, 214

  Western military forces, in Yokohama, 55–56, 77, 82, 83–84, 85, 102, 108

  Western powers, threat of war with Japan, 79, 81–86, 123, 140

  Western-style hairdressers, 108

  Western-style tailors, 107–8, 121, 182, 199, 224

  wheat production: decline in, 205; and Kōshū province, 1, 3, 5–6

  White, G. W., 170

  Whitston, George, 54–55

  Wigen, Kären, 121–22, 136, 209

  William Rangan & Company, 170

  Willis, William, 62–63

  Wilson, John, 111–12, 128–29

  Wirgman, Charles, 110–11, 180; The Storyteller (a Daily Scene) in Yokuhama (sic), 124–25, 125

  woodblock prints, 1–2, 110, 114, 174, 212, 215, 219

  Xiamen, 27

  Yamahigashiya Shinpei, 146

  Yamakawa Kikue, 179

  Yamanashi Prefectural Museum, xxi

  Yamanashi prefecture, 190–91. See also Kōshū province

  Yamatoya Ōhei, 92

  Yokohama: access by bridges, 15; administration of, 44–45; amulets and talismans of Shinto and Buddhist deities in, 155; antiforeign sentiment in, xviii, 71–86, 89–90, 92, 93, 132–33, 140, 216; applications for building lots in, 12–13; avenues of, 13, 20, 21, 43, 167; Benten festival in, 41–42, 65; Benten sh
rine, 13, 14, 42; brothel quarter of (Miyozakichō district), xx, 12, 15–16, 17, 26, 39, 42, 58–63, 116, 144, 145, 167, 184; capital financing in, 33–34; Chinatown of, 53; Chinese treaty ports compared to, 27–28, 39; and clothing changes, 178–81, 186; commercial culture of, xix, xx, xxi, 105–14; conditions for success in, xxi; conflict in, 39–40; construction of port, 13–14, 19–20, 29; cotton market in, 94, 95; creation of port town, 8, 9, 11–17, 27, 39; currency and measurement conversions for transactions, 95; customs house, 13, 14, 19, 21–22, 27, 28, 83, 93, 145, 167; demand for gold in, 35–39, 63; and domestic agitators, 40; earthquake of 1923, xxi; economic growth in, xviii, xxi, 81, 105, 112–13, 140, 144; and Edo wholesalers, 91–92; entertainment facilities of, 12, 15, 17, 39, 131; exports and imports of, 227; exports from, 105; and extraterritoriality system, 27–28, 31, 39; farming and fishing community of, 11, 24; fire of January 3, 1860, 73–74; fire of May 7, 1862, 75; fire of November 26, 1866, 62, 144–45, 147, 167; and food culture, 179, 180–81, 186; foreigners playing billiards, 118; foreigners shopping in, 19–20, 21, 22; foreign settlement and community of, 13, 17, 19–20, 22–23, 25, 27–28, 39–40, 50–60, 67–68, 73–74, 84, 107, 110, 117–20, 119, 123, 167, 180, 183–84, 185, 218–19; foreign women in, 56, 108, 115, 116, 118; as global space, 107, 123, 140, 214–15, 219–20, 221, 222; Gochōme neighborhood, 21; guidebooks of, 21–22, 45–46, 48, 60–61, 105, 112, 114, 115–19, 121, 123, 212, 215; harbor of, 23; Honchō Itchōme neighborhood, 21, 22, 55; Honchō neighborhoods, 45; Honchō Nichōme neighborhood, 21, 43–44, 45, 49, 61, 75, 152; Honchō Sanchōme neighborhood, 75; household groups (goningumi) of, 44; housepainters of, 108–9; and hybridized lifestyles, 186, 204–5; Japanese merchant quarter and community of, 17, 20, 27, 39, 43, 93, 107, 129, 167, 185; and Kanagawa commissioners, 11, 12–16, 17, 20–21, 31, 44–45, 60, 74, 79, 85, 138, 152, 168, 183–84; licensed silkworm egg card wholesalers in, 104; liminal nature of urban environment, 107; map of (ca. 1860), 14; media industry of, 105–6, 114–15, 120, 124–25, 130, 140–41, 174–76, 197, 210; and Meiji reforms, 187; modernization of, 167, 168, 178–79, 204–5, 209, 212; municipal affairs of, 27, 180, 183, 184, 224; Municipal Council, 27, 184; murders in, xviii, 71, 76–77, 78; Nakaiya shop, 22; neighborhoods of, 13, 21, 41–45, 115–16, 211; offices of major domains in, 143; official buildings and infrastructure, 17, 19, 27–28, 39, 44, 167, 183–84; opening of port, 16, 18–28, 105, 135, 140, 179, 209, 210, 213; opportunities in, xviii, xix, xxi, xxii, 7, 39, 40, 43, 71, 80–81, 83, 89, 90, 105, 107, 112–13, 121, 136, 141, 221; Ōtachō district, 148, 153; population of, xviii, 43, 45–46, 50, 228; prosperity of, 42, 105, 107, 115; protocol for Japanese interactions with foreigners, 20–21, 28; public toilets in, 180; railway line to Tokyo, 166–67, 171, 172–74, 214, 218; rebuilding of, 167–68; relationship with Kantō region, xix, xxi–xxii, 74, 86, 168, 172, 214; representations of, 114–32, 141, 219–20; residential districts of, 12; rickshaws of, 125, 168, 171–72, 215; route from Kōshū, 1; sanitation in, 183–84; Satsuma troops in, 161; schools of, 109; security in, 28, 74–75, 156; as semicolonial environment, 27; Swiss watchmakers of, 109; Tadachō Itchōme neighborhood, 75; and telegraph, 177–78, 216; and tourism, xviii, 49–50, 105, 107, 120; town hall of, 13, 44, 45, 64, 66, 84, 109, 167, 193; trade regulations in, 93, 101, 102, 104; transformative influence of, 211–16; and transportation, 106, 166–67, 169–74, 178, 212. See also merchant community of Yokohama

  Yokohama Hotel, 26, 106, 107, 108

  Yokohama shinbun, 175

  Yokohama Tales: Flower of the Port (Yokohama kidan: Minato no hana), 115–16, 118

  Yokohama village, 24, 44

  Yokohama Washing Establishment, 108

  Yokosuka Shipyard, 150, 169

  Yoshida Kōbei, 198–99

  Yoshida family, 182

  Yoshiwara quarter of Edo, 15–16

  Yōsho Shirabeshō (Center for the Investigation of Foreign Books), 175

  Zaiketsuke village, 136

  Zenjirō, 60

 

 

 


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