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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Full title: 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.
Alternative titles: 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
Published: 1805.
Series: SOAS Digital Library.
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246 3 5 |i Added title page title:  |a Strange Tales of a Circumnavigation. 
246 3 5 |i Added title page title:  |a 環海異聞. 
246 3 5 |i Added title page title:  |a Kankai ibun ki. 
246 3 5 |i Added title page title:  |a Extraordinary Accounts from around the Sea. 
260 |c 1805. 
490 |a Objects of instruction : treasures of SOAS. 
500 |a Otsuki Gentaku (1756-1827). He was also called Shigetada and Bansui. Rangakusha (scholar of western learning) and physician to the Sendai Clan. He revised and enlarged Sugita Genpaku's translation of "Kaitai shinso" (Tabulae Anatomicae) and published it under the title of "Jutei kaitai shinsho". Kankai Ibun-ki was transcribed and edited after he questioned the four sailors who were handed to the Nagasaki magistrate's office by a Russian mission in 1804. 
500 |a Description based on upon entries in Y. Yasumura, 'Catalogue of Japanese Manuscripts in the Library of the School of Oriental and African Studies: Together with a Short History of Manuscripts in Japan', SOAS Library, 1979; and A. Contadini (ed.), 'Objects of Instruction : Treasures of the School of Oriental and African Studies', SOAS, 2007, p.44, no.29. 
500 |a 10 volumes, each H26.1 x W18.2cm 
500 |a The 'Objects of instruction : the treasures of SOAS' exhibition was funded through a generous gift from the Foyle Foundation and with the support of the Arts & Humanities Research Council. 
500 |a Source: A. Contadini (ed.), Objects of instruction : treasures of the School of Oriental and African Studies. London : SOAS, University of London, 2007. Listed as item number: 29 
500 |a Cited in: Yoshiko Yasumura, 'Catalogue of Japanese Manuscripts in the Library of the School of Oriental and African Studies: Together with a Short History of Manuscripts in Japan', SOAS Library, 1979 
500 |a Published in 環海異聞 = Kankai ibun ki 
500 |a Comprised of 10 volumes 
500 |a Account of four sailor's round-the-world travels from Ishinomaki to Nagasaki, (1793-1804). 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 Otsuki Gentaku and Shimura Kokyo, who interviewed four members of the crew after they were handed over by the Russian Mission to the Nagasaki magistrate's office in 1804. 15 volumes with a preface copied into 10 volumes. No calligrapher's name. The original version was created in 1807 [Bunka 2], but no printed versions appeared until the late nineteenth century. Original account transcribed by Otsuki Gentaku and Shimura Kokyo. Chinese ink and water-colour paint. Many colour illustrations. Binding: Fukurotoji. Buff covers. 
520 3 |a 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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700 1 |a Ōtsuki, Gentaku, 1757-1827.  |4 ctb 
700 1 |a 志村, 弘強.  |4 ctb 
700 1 |a Shimura, Hiroatsu.  |4 ctb 
752 |a Japan. 
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