Hara-Machida
Photograph
Hara-Machida
From the album Photographic Views and Costumes of Japan
ca. 1868
Albumen silver print
22.2 x 29.0 cm.
Purchase
1979.0059.0023
Inscriptions (applied label, printed, opposite page):
HARA-MATCHIDA.
THIS pretty little village, about three hours ride from Yokohama on the way to Hatchoji owes its rise and progress entirely to the increase and wealth of Yokohama. A few years ago, within the memory of most of the foreign residents, Hara-matchida was scarcely worthy of the name of a village ; a stray house or two, occupied by farmers of a very humble class, was all that was to be seen of this now flourishing place. The rapid development of the Silk trade, and the riches acquired by the merchants and middlemen who soon settled in this, as being a central spot-gradually spread their influence over the neighbourhood, and now, the substantial fire-proof godowns and growing importance of the place, have attracted a rapidly increasing population and are evidences of its substantial improvement.
There is a particularly clean and comfortable Tea-house at Hara-machida for the accommodation of foreigners, and the inhabitants are always remarkably civil and obliging.
HARA-MATCHIDA.
THIS pretty little village, about three hours ride from Yokohama on the way to Hatchoji owes its rise and progress entirely to the increase and wealth of Yokohama. A few years ago, within the memory of most of the foreign residents, Hara-matchida was scarcely worthy of the name of a village ; a stray house or two, occupied by farmers of a very humble class, was all that was to be seen of this now flourishing place. The rapid development of the Silk trade, and the riches acquired by the merchants and middlemen who soon settled in this, as being a central spot-gradually spread their influence over the neighbourhood, and now, the substantial fire-proof godowns and growing importance of the place, have attracted a rapidly increasing population and are evidences of its substantial improvement.
There is a particularly clean and comfortable Tea-house at Hara-machida for the accommodation of foreigners, and the inhabitants are always remarkably civil and obliging.
