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Resource Details

Identifier:

AL950B(B083)1805

Title

[Kankaii Ibun/ Unusual News from the Seas Around Us]: Gentaku: 1805.

Description:

Ts. copy of a book in Japanese. One page note reads: Kankai Ibun was compiled by Otsuko Gentaku (1756-1829), on the basis of reports by four Japanese sailors who in 1793 were swept away from northern Japan by a storm. After returning to Japan in 1805, they were ordered by the lord of Mutsu domain to report on what they had seen. The sailors apparently lived on/at Na-a-tsu-ka (or possibly NAAKKa) apparently Unalaska. Royall Tyler.

Contributors

Otsuki, Gentaku (author)

Year

1805

Type

Text

Subject Language(s)

Unangan

LingType

text-ethnographic

Collection

Bergsland Collection

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