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Reference (shelfmark):: Or 2637
Title:: Teisei zōyaku sairan igen 訂正增譯采覽異言 [訂正増訳采覧異言]
Scope & Content:: Author: Arai Hakuseki 新井白石 (1657-1725); revised by Yamamura Saisuke [Masanaga Shimei] 山村才助 [昌永子明] (1770-1807). Date: c. 1800-1830. Description: A work on world geography originally compiled by Yamamura Saisuke (1770-1807) in 1802, a revised and enlarged version of Sairan igen 采覽異言by Arai Haku...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Japanese
Date Range:: [1800-1833]
Extent:: 12 volumes (rebound in 1 volume)

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 2638
Title:: Nisō danki 二叟譚奇
Scope & Content:: Authors: Kubota Kentatsu 久保田見達 (d. 1812) and Niira Kansō 新樂閑叟 (1764-1827). Date: c. 1810-1868. Description: Contains the text of two works relating to Ezo [Hokkaidō]: Hokuchi nikki 北地日記 by Kubota Kentatsu 久保田見達 and Hokusa shōroku 北槎小録 by Aikan Shujin 愛間主人 (Niira Kansō 新楽閑叟) dated 1810.
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Japanese
Date Range:: [1810-1868]
Extent:: 5 volumes (rebound in 1 volume)

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 2639
Title:: Funaosa nikki 船長日記
Scope & Content:: Author: Oguri Jūkichi 小栗重吉 (1785-1853); editor: Ikeda 池田寬 (d 1833). Date: c. 1850-1860. Description: An account by Ikeda Hirochika of the experiences of Oguri Jūkichi, captain of the Tokujomaru, who was shipwrecked off the coast of California in 1815.
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Japanese
Date Range:: [1850-1860]
Extent:: 3 volumes (rebound in 1 volume)

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 2640
Title:: Bandan 蕃談
Scope & Content:: Author: Koga Kin'ichirō (Yūtenshu) 古賀謹一郎 (憂天生). Date: c. 1850-1860. Description: An account of the experiences of the shipwrecked sailor Jirokichi 次郎吉 who was rescued by an American whaling ship in 1839. He spent 5 years travelling to Hawaii, Kamchatka and Alaska among other destinations. His ...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Japanese
Date Range:: [1850-1860]
Extent:: 6 volumes (rebound in 1 volume)

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 2641
Title:: Yōgai kiryaku 洋外紀略
Scope & Content:: Author: Asaka Shin (Gonsai) 安積信(艮斎) (1791-1861). Date: c. 1848-1860. Description: A work on foreign affairs originally written in 1848 by the scholar of Confucian studies Asaka Gonsai.
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Japanese
Date Range:: [1848-1860]
Extent:: 3 volumes (rebound in 1 volume)

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 2642
Title:: Orosha hyōkairoku 鄂羅斯漂海録 [鄂羅斯漂海録]
Scope & Content:: Date: c. 1850-1860. Description: An account of the experiences of the castaway Daikokuya Kōdayū 大黒屋光太夫 (1751-1828), who was shipwrecked on Amchitka Island in 1783 and subsequently spent nine years in Russia before returning to Japan in 1792. Incomplete: Volumes. 2-7 only, lacking volume 1.
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Japanese
Date Range:: [1850-1860]
Extent:: 7 volumes (rebound in 1 volume)

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 2643
Title:: Ezo Roshiakoku fudoki 蝦夷魯西亞國風土記 [蝦夷魯西亜国風土記]
Scope & Content:: Author: Imai Motoyasu 今井元安. Date: c. 1850-1860. Description: An account of the visit to Ezo [Hokkaido] by the Russian naval officer Adam Laxman in 1792 to establish a Russian trade agreement with Japan. The manuscript also contains accounts of other early contacts between Japan and Russia toge...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Japanese
Date Range:: [1850-1860]
Extent:: 1 volume (78 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 2644
Title:: Wateki higa kakuron (jōhen) 和狄彼我各論(上篇)
Scope & Content:: Date: 1855 [Ansei 2]. Description: First part of an account of the arrival of Commodore Matthew Perry's fleet in 1853 [Kaei 6] as recounted by Gōhara Sōzō 合原惣蔵. The second part of the manuscript is at Or 2645 and the third part at Or 2646.
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Japanese
Date Range:: 1855
Extent:: 5 volumes (rebound in 1 volume)

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 2645
Title:: Wateki higa kakuron (chūhen) 和狄彼我各論(中篇)
Scope & Content:: Date: 1855 [Ansei 2]. Description: Second part of an account of the arrival of Commodore Matthew Perry's fleet in 1853 [Kaei 6] as recounted by Gōhara Sōzō 合原惣蔵. The first part of the manuscript is at Or 2644. The third part of the work is at Or 2646.
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Japanese
Date Range:: 1855
Extent:: 5 volumes (rebound in 1 volume)

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 2646
Title:: Wateki higa kakuron (gehen) 和狄彼我各論(下篇)
Scope & Content:: Date: 1855 [Ansei 2]. Description: An account of the arrival of Commodore Matthew Perry's fleet in 1853 [Kaei 6] as recounted by Gōhara Sōzō 合原惣蔵.
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Japanese
Date Range:: 1855
Extent:: 5 volumes (rebound in 1 volume)

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