Jirō Aihara Japanese Navy training notebook : manuscript.

Format:

Book

Manuscript

Author/Creator:

Aihara, Jirō, author.

相原二郎, author.

Contributor:

Japanese Naval Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Japanese

Subjects (All):

Japan. Kaigun.

Kaiō Maru (Ship).

Kaiō Maru (Ship)--History--Sources.

Occupational training.

Soldiers.

Training-ships.

Training-ships--Japan--Sources.

Genre:

notebooks

Penn Provenance:

Sold by Japan Publications Trading Co., 2017.

Physical Description:

1 volume : illustrations, 27 x 20 cm

Production:

Japan, circa 1931-1932.

Other Title:

Cover title: Monbushō kōkai renshūjo renshū-sen shūgyō nisshi / Kaiō Maru dai 2-ki renshūsei Aihara Jirō.

Cover title: 文部省航海練習所練習船就業日誌 / 海王丸第二期練習生相原二郎.

Language Note:

Japanese and English.

Summary:

This volume contains notes by Jirō Aihara about the training on the Kaiwo Maru (海王丸), a Japanese barque (練習船)(ship) during the early 1930s. The volume is bound in black cloth with gold embossed Japanese characters on the front cover. There is some damage to the black cloth but the binding is in good condition.The volume is written in both Japanese (p. 4, 6-9, 39-41, 81, 83-96, 109-157) and English (p. 31-80). The processor is only fluent in English so the notes in Japanese are not included in this description. Sections of the volume are also blank (p. 10-30, 97-103, 158-162, 172-175). The notes in English are on specific elements of maintaining a ship including “bending and unbending sails” (p. 32-34), “tacking” (p. 37-38), “buoys and beacons” (p. 43-55), and “responding to distress signals” (p. 74-77). There are also numerous pages of hand-written notes in Japanese (p. 83-96, 109-157). There are two detailed hand drawn maps of Japan and Tokyo Bay (p. 163-164). This volume provides information about what trainees in one part of Japan's Navy (海軍) were being taught in the 1930s.

Notes:

Manuscript in official notebook issued by Monbushō.

Stamped as inspected by Kaiō Maru ship officials July 1, 1932.

Cited as:

Jirō Aihara Japanese Navy training notebook (Ms. Codex 2223). Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, University of Pennsylvania.

OCLC:

1470910126