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ROUTLEDGE LIBRARY EDITIONS: JAPAN

THE DEATH OF OLD YOKOHAMA

THE DEATH OF OLD YOKOHAMA

In the Great Japanese Earthquake of September 1, 1923

OTIS MANCHESTER POOLE

Volume 41

LONDON AND NEW YORK

First published in 1968

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THE DEATH OF OLD YOKOHAMA

in the Great Japanese Earthquake of September 1, 1923

OTIS MANCHESTER POOLE

London

GEORGE ALLEN AND UNWIN LTD

RUSKIN HOUSE MUSEUM STREET

FIRST PUBLISHED IN 1968

This book is copyright under the Berne Convention.Apart from any fair dealing for the purposes ofprivate study, research, criticism or review, aspermitted under the Copyright Act, 1956, noportion may be reproduced by any process withoutwritten permission. Enquiries should be addressed tothe publisher.

George Allen & Unwin Ltd, 1968

SBN 04 952 003 2

To
Old Friends

FOREWORD

This narrative, jotted down in the first few weeks following the catastrophe of 1923, has lain untouched for over forty years until at last transcribed in the quiet of retirement.

It was intended originally for friends familiar with the Yokohama that had so tragically vanished and with the people who dwelt there. For them no introduction was needed. But with the passage of time few can now recall the place as it used to be. For others, it may be helpful to explain how it came about that what was almost a foreign enclave existed on the shores of Tokyo Bay, and to give some description of its life and setting.

The narrative itself has been left essentially as set down at the time; and the author can only hope that the intervening years may have softened the sad memories of those who suffered grievously.

O.M.POOLE,
Missing Acres, R.F.D.3.
Charlottesville,
Virginia, U.S.A.

October, 1966

CONTENTS

MAPS

	Yokohama, 1923
	The Japanese Earthquake of 1923

ILLUSTRATIONS

	View from the Hundred Steps1865
American and British Consulates1865
The Hundred Steps1895
	Water Street1890
No. 68 Bluff in 1917
The railing guarding the brink of the cliff
	Family group in Kobe1824
The Yacht Daimyo
	Dodwell & Co. Ltds foreign staff
Ruins of Dodwell & Co. Ltds offices
Ruins of Dodwells godown
	The foreign settlement after the quake
The upper end of Main Street
	The rubble of China Town
Road fissures beside the inner Creek
	View across the Creek
View from Camp Hill Bridge
Profile of Sengen-yama 5
	Homes that escaped the fire
A.P.Scotts pancaked house on the Bluff
The authors residence: all that was left 5
	Bluff Road after the earthquake
Escape route down the cliffs 5
	Ruins of Grand Hotel
Walls of the Yokohama United Club
Patched up pier and shell of Harbour Office 5
	Canals and Docks were filled with corpses
Bodies in the Yokohama Specie Bank
Fire breaking out in the Japanese city
	A scene of horror
What happened to country roads
Temporary graves in British Consular Grounds
	A burial party in the new foreign cemetery
Remains of Temple Court
Gate to the Customs compound
	The come-back

1. Yokohama 1923 Foreign Settlement and Middle Bluff

2. The Japan Earthquake of 1923

2. Yokohama, in 1865

View from the Hundred Steps, with Kanagawa in far distance. In the middle distance, left, are the hills of Nogeyama, below which can be seen the greensward of the future Park and athletic field. At bottom of picture runs the Creek.

in 1865

The first American and British Consulates on either side of Water Street at the Creekside. The most distant trees beyond the apex of Water Street undoubtedly mark the spot where Commodore Perry conducted his treaty negotiations in 1854.

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