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@Tabitha Thank you for the comment! I'm very lucky that as a fan translator I have freedom to take time to do as much research into the book and any customs I don't know about.

@Tsuru1237 In the work this manga is based on, the author says "no foreign money except the Mexican dollar passes in Japan" (page 7). There's even a picture on wikipedia of a Mexican dollar coin with Japanese stamped onto it afterwards. It's definitely something that could be easily seen as a...

@Tsuru1237 Mexico uses the peso now but at the time of Miss Bird's journey it was frequently referred to as "the Spanish dollar" and widely used in the United States as well. Take a look at https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/1884074.pdf for more information

You can see some of the matoi designs used in Edo here: http://www5e.biglobe.ne.jp/~komichan/matoi/matoiTop.html

@trimurti3 whoops, thank you for mentioning it, fixed!

@Nixnaw TB is spread by sneezing or coughing, the blood is a side effect of the virus destroying the lungs, so it's not contagious. She would have been in more danger of catching it by his coughing on her.

For more information about the Japanese giant hornet, I recommend: https://everywherewild.com/japanese-hornet/ To see the reaction to a hornet sting, watch: https://youtu.be/i7VMcMJBjD4

Read more about the Shoki straw man festival of Niigata here: https://blog.gaijinpot.com/shoki-phallus-festival-niigata/

@Simpleton Hmmm, hard to say, since tempura was brought in by the Portuguese to Nagasaki in the 16th century, and without a steady supply of imported wine (near impossible during the sakoku policy) I can't see a recipe like that making its way all the way up to Yamagata. The impression I got...

@Simpleton happens to the best of us, don't worry about it!

@Simpleton I'm not sure I understand you? The manga doesn't mix the two up? Darwin sent Bird a copy of Transactions, it never says that he wrote it.

@Simpleton I'm very skeptical of an Italian recipe coming over. If it was Dutch or German, perhaps, but there wasn't a huge Italian presence in Japan before the turn of the century. Especially in Yamagata, where Isabella Bird specifically mentioned in her book that pretty much all the "foreign"...

@Simpleton The candy in question was 帯輪, so not an honorific o-. The obi is like the kimono obi sash and wa is circle/ring. It could be a very local sweet, or just very old so there are no digitized records.

@Simpleton They were two separate people. Darwin was a contemporary acquaintance of Miss Bird's, but he did not ever visit Japan. Charles Dallas Esq. was the author of the paper "Notes Collected in the Okitama Ken" that was published in the journal Transactions of the Asiatic Society of Japan...

@Simpleton, I thought about that, but dismissed it because tamagozake is always done with sake, not wine, and the text specifically said *wine*. Plus, it's mostly reserved for actual illnesses like colds/flus (egg protein keeps person nourished, sake keeps hydrated-ish and the alcohol improves...

Keep in mind that the story is set in 1878. Origin of Species was only published in 1859 and didn't become truly central to modern evolutionary theory until the 1930s. In fact, from about the 1880s to 1930s there was a "eclipse of Darwinism" when most biologists believed in natural selection or...

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