Yokohama—Mississippi Bay

“This road leads down to the water’s edge, and following the shore of Mississippi Bay, where Commodore Perry’s ships anchored in 1858, strikes across a rice valley and climbs to the Bluff again.”




“A steep descent from the Bluff takes us into a valley cultivated with rice, across which several narrow path lead towards the numerous little watering-places on the picturesque, indented shore of Mississippi Bay.”

Eliza Ruhamah Scidmore, Jinrikisha Days in Japan, (New York, 1891) p. 12

Arthur H. Crow, Highways and Byeways in Japan, (London, 1883) p. 202