Typhoon in December of 1864 in Japan?
Yeddo seems to be a version of Edo, which is today Tokyo. Though it has had its share of disasters, nothing seems to come up concerning any storms in the 1864. Fires and earthquakes seem the more typical catastrophes. A horrible fire in 1857 seems to be the closest event timewise that I find. It was apparently still in existence in 1868:


  In 1868, when the shogunate came to an end, the city was renamed Tokyo
  ("eastern capital"). The emperor moved his residence to Tokyo, making
  the city the formal capital of Japan