Figures
1.2The launch of the Yamashiro-maru, Newcastle upon Tyne, 12 January 1884
1.3‘Midship Section of Spardecked Steamer’ (Yamashiro-maru and Omi-maru)
2.1Joseph Dwight Strong, ‘Japanese Laborers on the Sugar Plantation in Spreckelsville, Maui’, 1885
3.1Utagawa Kunisada, ‘Rules of Dietary Life’ (Inshoku yōjō kagami 飲食養生鑑), c. 1850
4.1‘AUSTRALIANS, HOLD YOUR OWN!’ The Worker: Monthly Journal of the Associated Workers of Queensland (Brisbane), 7 November 1896
4.2‘Japanese and trucks loaded with cane’, Hambledon Mill, near Cairns, c. 1890
5.1‘Correspondence re alleged abduction of a Japanese woman’, 1897
6.2Detail from Kizaki Moritaka, ‘Illustrations of Products from Hizen Province’ (‘Hizen-shū sanbutsu zukō’ 肥前州産物図考), 1784
6.3Yamamoto Sakubei, ‘Mining Coal in a Lying Position’ (Nebori 寝掘り), December 1964