The Merchant's Tale
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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