Before Japan was 'opened up' in the 1850s, contact with Russia as well as other western maritime nations was extremely limited. Yet from the early eighteenth century onwards, as a result of their expanding commercial interests in East Asia and the North Pacific, Russians had begun to encounter Japanese and were increasingly eager to establish diplomatic and trading relations with Japan. This book presents rare narratives written by Russians, including official envoys, scholars and, later, tourists, who visited Japan between 1792 and 1913. The introduction and notes set these narratives in the context of the history of Russo-Japanese relations and the genre of European travel writing, showing how the Russian writers combined ethnographic interests with the assertion of Russian and European values, simultaneously inscribing power relations and negotiating cultural difference.
Author(s): David Wells
Edition: 1
Year: 2004
Language: English
Pages: 232
Tags: Международные отношения;Международные отношения;История международных отношений;Научные статьи и сборники
Book Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 4
Contents......Page 5
List of illustrations......Page 10
Note on calendars, names and measures......Page 12
Preface......Page 14
Acknowledgements......Page 16
Introduction: Japan through Russian eyes history and context......Page 18
Adam Laxman: Journal of Laxman's embassy to Japan (Ezo, 1792 3)......Page 49
Ivan Krusenstern: Voyage round the world (Nagasaki, 1804 5)......Page 77
Vasilii Golovnin: Narrative of my captivity in Japan (Ezo, 1811)......Page 98
Ivan Goncharov: The frigate Pallada (Nagasaki, 1853)......Page 120
A. Kornilov: News from Japan (Edo, 1859)......Page 135
Sergei Maksimov: In the East (Hakodate, late 1850s)......Page 142
Ivan Zarubin: Around Asia (Nagasaki, 1880)......Page 165
A. Cherevkova: On the Japanese railways (Nagoya, 1890)......Page 179
Andrei Krasnov: Around the islands of the Far East (Nagasaki, 1892)......Page 187
Nikolai Garin-Mikhailovskii: Around Korea, Manchuria and the Liaodong Peninsula (Nagasaki, Yokohama, 1898)......Page 193
Vladimir Semenov: The price of blood (Kyoto, 1905)......Page 204
E. Kobiakova: My first day in Japan (Gifu, 1913)......Page 221
Index......Page 227
