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Jessa Dahl

The Merchant, the Marriage, and the Treaty Port: Reassessing Ōura Kei

February 17, 2023

Ōura Kei’s name is not widely known outside Japan, but she was one of Nagasaki’s most famous residents. One of the Japan’s first exporters of green tea, Ōura has become known as one of her home city’s three “heroic women” (女傑, joketsu), who are celebrated for their exploits during Nagasaki’s treaty port period, which spanned […]

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