Abstract

This paper discuss about the tea firing places owned by Glover & Co in Nagasaki. The main points are as follows : —· It was August 1861 when Glover & Co. had established tea firing place, which was moved from Japanese town into the foreign settlement on December of same year.· In 1862 Glover & Co. ordered tea firing apparatus and Chinese skilled staff, tea boy to overcome unsatisfactory quantity and quality.· As the sale was much influenced by world market and price it was difficult to have the constant and steady profit, which was probably connected with their technical improvement works.· In 1867 the trial of availing the machine preparing tea was introduced in the establishment and designed by T. J. Waters.· This establishment, although on the way of development, could be looked upon not the small household manufacture but one of the earliest modern industries in Japan.

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