| Budget Amount *help |
¥2,600,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,300,000、Indirect Cost: ¥300,000)
Fiscal Year 2007: ¥1,300,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,000,000、Indirect Cost: ¥300,000)
Fiscal Year 2006: ¥1,300,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,300,000)
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| Research Abstract |
The purpose of the present project was to investigate the Harold S. Williams Collection preserved at the National Library of Australia, to locate materials related to the former Nagasaki Foreign Settlement, and to analyze and organize these for easy retrieval and use in related research projects.
To this end, the investigators traveled to the National Library of Australia in Canberra, Australia in FY2006 and spent several days looking through the Harold S. Williams Collection As a result, we made photographic copies of more than 500 documents, photographs, drawings and other materials in the collection. In FY2007, we traveled to the UK to continue the above research at the National Archives of the United Kingdom as well as the British Library. The results of the latter investigation can be outlined as follows:
1) At the National Archives, we investigated the archives of the former Nagasaki British Consulate, particularly the letters, reports and other dispatches from the consulate to the British Minister (later Ambassador) in Tokyo (FO 262), and we took more than 1, 200 photographs (by digital camera) of documents, etc. related to the former Nagasaki Foreign Settlement. 2) At the British library, we investigated and listed the works of Harold S. Williams preserved there. We also located the English-language newspaper 'The Nagasaki Shipping List (published from November 1869 to December 1970) mentioned by Williams in one of his documents and we obtained a microfilm copy. This newspaper has never been seen before in Nagasaki and will shed new light on this period of local history.
We are confident that the materials accumulated in the process of the above project will add impetus to studies on the history, culture and human aspect of the former Nagasaki Foreign Settlement and provide a basis for the use of this information in preserving the related architectural and cultural legacy and in revitalizing the tourism industry and local economy of Nagasaki.
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