Preparing incense at the Kuan Ti Temple in Yokohama. The Daoist temple, dedicated to the Chinese deity Guandi, is one of two major temples in Yokohama’s Chinatown. Yokohama’s Chinatown, the biggest in Japan, dates back to the 1850s, when Chinese immigrants and merchants began to trade in the newly established treaty port. In front of the former British consulate in Yokohama, now the Yokohama Historical Archives Museum. The museum includes a fascinating collection of tea labels from Yokohama’s export tea industry in the late 19th century.
