A "mid-day meal" at Nakamura-rō in the mid-1870s, at which Australian travel writer James Hingston is presented with a copy of Yamamoto's 1873 guidebook to read (1879, 40– 41). "Minerva" is a nickname given to the guide, who Hingston employs in Kobe, professing that is "the nearest approach I could make to my [his] name" (35).