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The Merchant's Tale Ministry & Leadership He is co-author of theIn April 1859, at age fifty, Shinohara Chemon left his old life behind. Chemon, a well off farmer in his home village, departed for the new port city of Yokohama, where he remained for the next fourteen years. There, as a merchant trading with foreigners in the aftermath of Japan's 1853 "opening" to the West, he witnessed the collapse of the Tokugawa shogunate, the civil war that followed, and the Meiji Restoration's reforms. The Merchant's Tale looks