Mộ ông Tani Yajirobei

This guide to the tomb of Tani Yajirobei in Hoi An starts with Japan's 1635 sakoku edict, which ordered every merchant abroad home and sealed the trade route Yajirobei had sailed for years. He obeyed and returned to Japan, leaving behind a woman in this port whose name no record kept. Years later, stranded by a law he had no say in, he made the choice to break it and sail back toward Hoi An. The guide follows what that decision cost him and how a local commune has marked his memory ever since.