Yokohama and the Silk Trade
Yokohama and the Silk Trade

Author: Yasuhiro Makimura

Publisher: Lexington Books

Published: 2017-06-15

Total Pages: 277

ISBN-13: 1498555608

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This study provides a broad political and economic examination of the impact of the silk trade on nineteenth-century Japan. It analyzes the economic role of Japan’s eastern interior region and that of the port of Yokohama. It argues that the economic development in this period laid the foundations for Japan’s prewar industrial development in the late nineteenth century and was largely responsible for the integration of Japan into the global economy.

The American Merchant Experience in Nineteenth Century Japan
The American Merchant Experience in Nineteenth Century Japan

Author: Kevin C. Murphy

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2004-08-02

Total Pages: 325

ISBN-13: 1134433964

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American merchants established trading firms in the ports of Yokohama, Kobe and Nagasaki which operated from 1859-1899 until the repeal of the Unequal Treaties. Members of a privileged, semi-colonial community, the merchants formed the largest group of Americans in 19th century Japan. In this first book-length treatment of this group, Kevin Murphy explores their interactions with the Japanese in the treaty port system, how the Japanese leadership manipulated them to its own ends, and how the merchants themselves defined the limitations of American business in Japan through their ambiguous but deep concern with order and opportunity, restraint and dominance, and conservatism and dominance.

Samurai and Silk
Samurai and Silk

Author: Haru Matsukata Reischauer

Publisher: Harvard University Press

Published: 1986

Total Pages: 428

ISBN-13: 9780674788015

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This extraordinary family account begins with the author's two illustrious grandfathers: one, a provincial samurai who became a founding father of the Meiji government; the other, a scion of a wealthy and enterprising peasant family who almost single-handedly developed the silk trade with America.