Launch of a hot-air balloon in St Petersburg and portraits of the Tsar and Tsarina of Russia, Alexander I and Elizabeth exemplars.
Kankai Ibun-ki [Strange Tales of a Circumnavigation].
Kankai ibunki.
Strange Tales of a Circumnavigation.
環海異聞.
Kankai ibun ki.
Extraordinary Accounts from around the Sea.
These hand-copied volumes comprise an illustrated account of 16 Japanese sailors who were shipwrecked on the Russian coast in the winter of 1793. They ended up travelling from Russia, where they stayed almost ten years, to Great Britain, the Canary Islands, Brazil, the Marquesas, and back to Kamchat...
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Launch of a hot-air balloon in St Petersburg and portraits of the Tsar and Tsarina of Russia, Alexander I and Elizabeth [electronic resource] exemplars. |
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Kankai Ibun-ki [Strange Tales of a Circumnavigation]. Kankai ibunki. Strange Tales of a Circumnavigation. 環海異聞. Kankai ibun ki. Extraordinary Accounts from around the Sea. |
| Other authors: | Otsuki, Gentaku, 1756-1827, scholar and phyiscian., 大槻, 磐水, 1757-1827., Ōtsuki, Gentaku, 1757-1827., 志村, 弘強., Shimura, Hiroatsu. |
| Format: | Physical Object |
| Language: | Japanese |
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1805.
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SOAS Digital Library.
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| Summary: |
These hand-copied volumes comprise an illustrated account of 16 Japanese sailors who were shipwrecked on the Russian coast in the winter of 1793. They ended up travelling from Russia, where they stayed almost ten years, to Great Britain, the Canary Islands, Brazil, the Marquesas, and back to Kamchatka. The text was compiled by Ōtsuki Gentaku and Shimura Kōkyō, who interviewed four members of the crew after they were handed over by the Russian Mission to the Nagasaki magistrate’s office in 1804. The original version was created in 1807, but no printed versions appeared until the late nineteenth century. (Text by John T. Carpenter and Yoshiko Yasumura, from the exhibition catalogue: Objects of instruction : treasures of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Anna Contadini, Editor. London : SOAS, University of London, 2007.) |
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| Other authors: | Otsuki, Gentaku, 1756-1827, scholar and phyiscian., 大槻, 磐水, 1757-1827., Ōtsuki, Gentaku, 1757-1827., 志村, 弘強., Shimura, Hiroatsu. |
| Language: | Japanese |
| Published: |
1805.
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| Series: |
SOAS Digital Library.
REGIONS. FORMATS. ARTE. REAS. REUR. IASC. ISOAS. |
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Japan. |