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This screenshot is from the Minneapolis City Directory of 1891-92 and shows the name of Buhach Hayashi at 606 Nicolette Ave. along with his clerk, "Taku" which to me looks like a mis-spelling of our friend, Tada Naka.

So, early on, they were importing Japanese porcelain. I wonder how this connection with St. Paul was established?

This is a lovely little cover and I have only just begun to explore your posts but this is really interesting stuff. Well done! It helps that I love birds too.

Given the date then, I wonder if the advertisement's reference to an earthquake is this:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1891_Mi...

The only exception to this is one I obtained postmarked in Manila with a Philippines definitive affixed.

So far, this is the only one that I have found postmarked in Japan, with a Japanese stamp affixed (4 sen kiku). The majority of them, which I will post later, are postmarked in the US, usually Honolulu, with US stamps affixed.

I think it is interesting to understand that the sender wrote the postcard on January 2, 1910 on the outbound leg of their trip from Honolulu to Japan and then posted it on January 14 from Yokohama.

A few, also have the specific ship and the name of the commander additionally printed on the front. In this case, the Tenyo Maru, Ernest Bent, Commander appears at lower left overprinting the boat and flowers.

Thank you for your help with this. I have gone to Family Search to view this record. This is very helpful. When I first received this cover last year I did not do an extensive search on the name just because I was too busy with other things.

What is the date of the newspaper or other document that this was in?

Nice. I have used old maps to determine location of my ancestor's farmstead here in Michigan.

I love these old postcards. Is it postally used?

Also, may I use this information/image and the map image in a private Japanese Philately group I belong to?

This is excellent. Are the archives of The Saint Paul Globe behind a paywall? The addressee is named T. Naka (or Naha), Esq. which is typically a title appended to a lawyer's name. He must have been part of the Japanese community living there at the time.

There is an implication that whoever sent the cover was traveling onboard a TKK ship. There is a bit of script in the lower left corner of the cover that might read, "per S.S. China". This ship wasn't a TKK ship, as far as I know though.

A little bit more difficult but perhaps not impossible to determine, is who T. Naka, Esquire is and what was he doing in St. Paul in 1897. In modern times, according to Google Maps, there is no longer a building or home with the address of 377 Wabasha in St. Paul.

There is also a red oval marking with YSKW in the lower part of the oval and the katakana syllables, Yo Shi Ka Wa (ヨ シ カ ワ) in the upper part of the oval. Does anyone know what this is? My assumption is that it is a business and possibly having to do with the silk trade.