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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| Format: | eBook Electronic |
| Language: | English |
| Imprint: | New York : Columbia University Press, 2018. |
| Series: | Asia perspectives.
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| Online Access: | Click here for full text at JSTOR |