Japanese Castaway Gives First Description of USA (1852) // Incredible Story of John Manjiro @VoicesofthePast

Voices of the Past | Japanese Castaway Gives First Description of USA (1852) // Incredible Story of John Manjiro @VoicesofthePast | Uploaded December 2020 | Updated October 2024, 6 hours ago.
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Extracts taken from "Drifting Toward the Southeast: The Story of Five Japanese Castaways : a Complete Translation of Hyoson Kiryaku (a Brief Account of Drifting Toward the Southeast) as Told to the Court of Lord Yamauchi of Tosa in 1852 by John Manjiro
Translated by: Junya Nagakuni and Junji Kitadai
(Spinner Publications, 2003)
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Image credits:

Thanks to Matthew Cartwright for his work on the images of the boat in the ocean, the men arriving on the island and Manjiro in the Gold Rush.

Thanks to The Rosenbach, Philadelphia, Manjiro Exhibition for the use of images 3, 4, 23, 24, and 25 in their collection from the manuscript of Hyoson Kiryaku.
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