T. Assendelft De Coningh's A Pioneer In Meiji Japan

To began with the economy background information about Edo and Meiji Japan. In the Edo era, the Tokugawa shogunate implementation of the "lock country politics" policy, to prohibit foreign missionaries, businessmen and civilians into Japan, nor to allow foreign Japanese to return home, or even prohibit the manufacture of ships suitable for maritime navigation, only with China, North Korea and Netherlands and other countries only in Nagasaki. It can be proved by C.T. Assendelft De Coningh’s A Pioneer in Yokohama. In this novel, it describes a Dutch merchant CT Assendelft de Coningh in Yokohama. He provided both an emerging eyewitness account of daily life in the Japanese treaty ports and a unique perspective on the economic Military, and political leaders the Western imperial powers brought to bear on newly opened Japan. …show more content…
On the other hand, this policy also could be defined as aspect of political. So I will mention the "lock country politics" policy again in the political analysis. According to my research, “the shogunate had strictly controlled international trades until Japan was forced to join the free trade regime in 1859 and raw silk produced in Eastern Japan had been shipped to Edo (Tokyo), and Kyoto, the largest consumer cities.” Said by Nakabayashi, Masaki. It means the international foreign tread was developed until Meiji period. In addition, “China and Japan were incorporated into the global market by imposed free trade in 1844 and 1859, respectively. Japan began to show clear signs of modern economic growth in the mid-1880s.” According to all the information above, it told us that the economic development was very slow in the Edo era, and the economic development got rapid advancement in the Meiji Japan. Actually, with the economy development in this time period, the inchoate capitalism economy emerged in