Feudal "Edo" for the central metropolis, located on what must surely have been Yokohama Bay—with its ancient port that lay open, greeting the vast mare Oceanum toward sunrise, only to play reluctant host to the American explorer, Commodore Matthew Perry, and his successive "gunboat" embassies thereto in the nineteenth century—probably fell out of use not long after the last Tokugawa shogun Yoshinobu in 1867: a sidereal change, and verily so, which at once foretold the end of splendid isolation for this pastoral nation of maritime lore, as well as the onset of Meiji reform in the meantime, thus proving to be Japan’s disastrous entry in the postmodern era of capitalist industrialism & syncretic forms of worship, a much too sceptical world that we all see everywhere today.