daij
"In 1822 cholera first arrived in Japan, but it did not 
reach Edo, which is the old name of Tokyo, nor Kanagawa, 
a prefecture located next to Tokyo. During a second 
epidemic in 1858, 30,000 or so Japanese died and 
Kanagawa had a heavy toll. Cholera raged in Japan in 
1877, 1879, 1882, 1886, 1890, 1891 and 1895."
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11639554
So there might have been some relatively modern (e.g. 
post-Meiji) use