The merchant's tale : Yokohama and the transformation of Japan /
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 &qu...
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New York :
Columbia University Press,
[2018]
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| Series: | Asia perspectives
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