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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.
Yasuhiro Makimura is associate professor of history at Iona College.
Chapter 1: The Early Modern Japanese EconomyChapter 2: The Failure of the Tempo Reforms and the Opening of YokohamaChapter 3: The First Merchant of YokohamaChapter 4: Bakumatsu Japan’s Trade and Yokohama’s Place in that TradeChapter 5: Yokohama and its HinterlandChapter 6: The Producers of Eastern Japan
Makimura’s attention to individual actors and the choices they faced is an effective tool for exploring the many contingencies that went into making the Japanese silk trade successful. . . .