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This abridgement of the unique journal of Francis Hall, America's leading business pioneer in nineteenth-century Japan, offers a remarkable view of the period leading to the Meiji Restoration. An upstate New York book dealer, Hall went to Japan in 1859 to collect material for a book on the country and to serve as correspondent for Horace Greely's New York Tribune. Seeing the opportunities for commerce in Yokohama, he helped found Walsh, Hall, and Co., an institution that became one of the most important American trading houses in Japan. Hall was a shrewd businessman, but also a perceptive recorder of life around him. Privately preserved for more than a hundred years, this document shows Hall to have been an astute observer and story-teller as well as an influential opinion-maker in the United States during the crucial decade of the American Civil War and the end of the Tokugawa Shogunate. While contemporary American and British diplomatic accounts have focused on the official record, Hall reveals the private side of life in the treaty port. The publication of his journal, now in abridged form for the student and general reader, furnishes us with an insightful and sensitive portrayal of Japan on the eve of modernity.
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Index
Abe Echizen no Kami Masatō, 183n24
Abolitionist movement, 8, 10–11
Abortion, 359
Actaeon (survey ship), 243
Acupuncture, 203
Adams, Henry A. (Commander), 251, 260n40
Adams, Will, 106
Adrian, Caroline, 56, 59(n24), 134
Adultery, 80, 139, 222
Adzumaya inn (Eastern Hotel; "Sea-Bride"), 208–209, 248–249, 251–252, 301
Ainos (Hairy Kuriles), 153–154
Aizo, Prince of, 371
Alcock, Rutherford (English Minister)
and additional forces from China, 378
and the attack on the English Legation, 233, 237
circulars, 199, 213
conflict with Harris, 204, 205
and currency exchange, 19, 50
and Dan Ketch, 72, 182n10
diplomatic difficulties, 18, 386
envoy to England refused, 229
FH's relationship with, 14, 390
foreign merchants called scum, 405n12
Fuji ascended, 188n66
and Governors of Foreign Affairs, 199
and Heusken's death, 195
hunting and firearms regulations issued, 177
letter about murders, 203, 204
lock copied, 115
and the Moss case, 216
move to Yokahama, 22, 198–199
and murder of Baldwin and Bird, 402, 407
return to Edo, 205
return to post, 371
safety of, 191, 193, 198–199, 233, 235
Alcohol, 48, 96, 137, 212. See also Drunkenness; Salci; Temperance
Alexander, Captain, 391
Allen, Mr., 354
Allmand, John, 269
Allmand & Co., 314n11
Amakusa, 116
American Baptist Free Mission Society, 184n30
American Consul(ate) (Kanagawa)
and American safety, 81–82
and attack on the Richardson party, 306, 307
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Preface
- Francis Hall
- 1859
- 1860
- 1861
- 1862
- 1863
- 1864
- 1865
- 1866
- Index