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Subject Japan--Foreign relations--1600-1868

1. Or 872

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Or 872
Title:
Orandajin sanpu hairei o-itoma nosetsu kenshi miwake nado kokoroegata 阿蘭陀人参府拝禮御暇之節検使見分など心得方
Scope & Content:
Variant title on cover: Ranjin sanpu o-itoma no setsu kenshi kokoroegata 蘭人参府御暇之節検使心得方. A detailed account of the Dutch delegation to the Shogunal court in 1838 compiled by Arai Taemon 荒井太右衛門, a servant of the Governor of Nagasaki.
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Japanese
Date Range:
1838
Extent:
1 volume (44 folios)

2. Or 2633

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Or 2633
Title:
Meifukuki 迷復記
Scope & Content:
Author: Murayama Arinari 村山有成. Date: 1780 [An'ei 9]. Description: An account of various castaways. Preface dated An'ei 9 [1780]. Colophon: 貸本所松本文明堂所蔵.
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Japanese
Date Range:
1780
Extent:
12 volumes (rebound in 1)

3. Or 2634

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 2634
Title:
Chūgai shinwa 中外新話. 1-4
Scope & Content:
Title on spine: 'Homeand foreign news'. A digest of foreign events and news, principallyrelating to Russia,.during the period 1782-1794. Possibly compiled byKatsuragawa Hoshū (Kuniakira) 桂川 甫周 (国瑞) (1751-1809)whose name appears at the end of the text.
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Japanese
Date Range:
1798
Extent:
1 volume

4. Or 2636

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Or 2636
Title:
Kankai ibun 環海異聞
Scope & Content:
Compiler: Ōtsuki Gentaku 大槻玄沢 (1757-1827). Date: c. 1850-1860. Description: An account by Ōtsuki Gentaku of the experiences of Tsudayū (1744-1814), a sailor who was shipwrecked on Unalaska in the Aleutian Islands in 1794 and who subsequently circumnavigated the globe with Nikolai Rezanov's e...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Japanese
Date Range:
[1850-1860]
Extent:
16 volumes (rebound in 1 volume)

5. Or 2637

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)

6. Or 2639

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)

7. Or 2640

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Or 2640
Title:
Bandan 蕃談
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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)

8. Or 2641

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)

9. Or 2642

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 2642
Title:
Orosha hyōkairoku 鄂羅斯漂海録 [鄂羅斯漂海録]
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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)

10. Or 2643

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)