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Kankai ibun, 1807.
環海異聞
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Arthur Tress Collection Tress 635
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- Format:
- Other
- Author/Creator:
- Ōtsuki, Gentaku, 1757-1827, author.
- 大槻茂質, author.
- Language:
- Japanese
- Subjects (All):
- Eskimos--Alaska--Social life and customs.
- Eskimos--Alaska--History.
- Japan--Foreign relations--Russia.
- Russia--Foreign relations--Japan.
- Russia--Social life and customs.
- Diplomatic relations.
- Eskimos.
- Eskimos--Social life and customs.
- Alaska.
- Japan.
- Russia.
- Genre:
- History.
- Penn Provenance:
- Tress, Arthur (donor) (Tress Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 16 volumes : illustrations (some color) ; 28 cm
- Place of Publication:
- 1807.
- [Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], 1807.
- Summary:
- This manuscript deals with the experience of Tsudayū and his crew in Russia from 1794-1804. The narration about the practice and manners of Russian people in Alaska and Russia proper is detailed and interesting.
- Notes:
- Title and date taken from preface.
- This is a sixteen volume manuscript. A preface volume exists in which the date 1807, and instructions are given concerning western geographical concepts.
- Local Notes:
- Tress 635: Kislak Center Tress Collection of Japanese Illustrated Books copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018. Formerly housed as Box 8, item 9 as well as Ōtsuki 1 .
- Tress Collection copy is either volume 9, 10, or 11. Volume number is not indicated in the text.
- Cited in:
- Kokusho sōmokuroku, volume 2, page 279
- OCLC:
- 122779296
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