Yasuhiro Makimura is associate professor of history at Iona College.

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. . . .

• 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

Yasuhiro Makimura is associate professor of history at Iona College.

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. . . .

• 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

Yasuhiro Makimura is associate professor of history at Iona College.

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. . . .

• 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