Kankai ibun, vol. 5, 1807

Kankai ibun, [1807], volume 5 = Description and travel of circumnavigation of seas, [1807], volume 5 = 環海 異聞 五 文化 4. Volume five of a manuscript by Gentaku Ōtsuki and Kōkyō Shimura who drew from four Japanese fishermen the story of their voyage around the world during repeated interviews. The Kankai Ibun is an account of their journey when they were sent off-course en route to the capital, Edo. The fishermen were rescued by a Russian ship and taken to late 18th / early 19th century Europe and, most especially, Russia.; The cargo ship, Wakamiyamaru, left from the port of Ishimaki in Sendai-han, today’s Miyagi Prefecture, in Japan carrying rice and lumber with 16 crew members for Edo, today’s Tokyo, on November 27th, 1793. Shipwrecked and drifted in the Pacific Ocean for half a year, they finally landed in one of the islands of the Andreanof Islands, a part of the Aleutian Islands on May 10th, 1794. They were transferred to Irkutsk by Russians where they stayed until the spring of 1803. They were then called in by Alexander I of Russia to St. Petersburg where they stayed from April to June in 1803, and from where they started their journey back home. They were included in the Rezanov mission on the first Russian global circumnavigation by a ship Nadezhda. It took them 16 months to reach the port of Nagasaki, Japan in September, 1804 since they left in June, 1803. Of the sixteen, five crewmen got on board. Four returned home in Sendai; one, who had become an interpreter, returned to Russia with Rezanov.《环海异闻》（Kankai Ibun）1807年卷五，亦名《环球航海记述与旅行》（Description and travel of circumnavigation of seas）1807年卷五，对应《環海異聞 五 文化4》。本卷为大槻玄沢（Gentaku Ōtsuki）与志村耕郊（Kōkyō Shimura）经多次访谈四名日本渔民后，整理而成的环球航行经历手稿。《环海异闻》所记述的，正是这些渔民在前往首府江户途中偏离航线后的旅程。渔民们被俄罗斯船只救起，随后被带往18世纪末至19世纪初的欧洲，其中在俄罗斯境内停留时间最长。1793年11月27日，搭载稻米与木材的货船「若宫丸」（Wakamiyamaru）从仙台藩（今日本宫城县）石卷港起航，搭载16名船员前往江户（今日本东京）。1794年5月10日，该船失事并在太平洋漂流半年后，最终登陆阿留申群岛（Aleutian Islands）下属的安德烈亚诺夫群岛（Andreanof Islands）中的一座岛屿。俄方将他们转移至伊尔库茨克（Irkutsk），直至1803年春季。1803年4月至6月间，他们受俄罗斯沙皇亚历山大一世（Alexander I of Russia）召见前往圣彼得堡（St. Petersburg），并从该地启程返国。他们搭乘「希望号」（Nadezhda）参与了列扎诺夫使团（Rezanov mission）组织的俄罗斯首次环球航行。他们于1803年6月出发，历经16个月航程后，于1804年9月抵达日本长崎（Nagasaki）港。16名船员中仅有5人登上返程船只：4人经仙台返回日本本土；另有1人因担任译员，随列扎诺夫前往俄罗斯。