Hariya (Nagasaki publishing house)

Hariya (針屋) was one of the four main Edo period publishing houses of the Nagasaki prints (長崎版画), also known as Nagasaki-e (長崎絵), that depict the port city of Nagasaki, the Dutch and Chinese who frequented it, and other foreign curiosities such as exotic fauna and Dutch and Chinese ships. Hariya was the first of the four leading houses; the others were Toshimaya (豊島屋), Yamatoya (大和屋), and Bunkindō (文錦堂). Three different prints are known from Hariya, with subject matter that relates to the Dutch residents of Dejima and to Tōjin yashiki, the city's so-called "Chinese factory".

Name
Hariya as fariya is included as an entry in the 1604 supplement to the Nippo Jisho, the Japanese-Portuguese dictionary compiled by Jesuit missionaries and published in Nagasaki in 1603 (the first dictionary of Japanese to a European language). There it is defined as "that which makes needles for sewing, also, the store or establishment where these are sold". The word hariya also features in Saikaku's 1688 ukiyo-zōshi The Eternal Storehouse of Japan (日本永代蔵), as a byword for travel: "it's when you can slip in talk of needle shops (hariya) and ink brushes that you're really attuned to the mindset of someone used to life on the road". One Hariya Yohee (針屋与兵衛) appears in the records of Nagasaki temple Daion-ji (大音寺); his death in Hōreki 4 (1754) would make him a plausible candidate, since the known prints are understood to date from the years to 1750.

Surviving prints
Three different prints are known. In all three the publisher is given as Hariya (針屋) of Nagasaki Sakura-machi (長崎櫻町). When C. R. Boxer was writing, the Hollander was unique, with two prints of each of the other two known. A set of all three may now be found at Kobe City Museum although, judging from the similar later issues by other houses based on these the earliest prints, there may originally have been also a fourth, of a Dutch ship. The prints are hand-coloured, using a brush and red, yellow, brown, and blue pigments, over the printed ink sumi-zuri.

Picture of a Dutchman
Entitled Picture of a Dutchman (阿蘭陀人之図), the print shows a red-haired Dutch man with a long clay smoking pipe (cf. kiseru) and a walking cane, accompanied by a Javanese servant with a Japanese-style umbrella, and a sailor carrying a tray with a flask and a goblet, perhaps for wine. C. R. Boxer identifies "Asiatic influence" in the man's coat, suggesting local or Chinese tailoring. Additional lettering identifies the figures: the Dutch Opperhoofd or Captain (かびたん), his "black boy" (くろぼう), and a sailor またろす (matarosu).

Chinaman
Without a title, the print goes by the name of Chinaman of the Great Qing (大清人).

Picture of a Chinese Ship
Entitled Picture of a Chinese ship (唐舩之図), the print shows the vessel and nine of her crew, accompanied by thirteen lines of text with details as to the ship's size and complement and distances from Japan to locations in China.