2023 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
British and Russian interest in Japan under the knowledge globalization at the end of the eighteenth century, focusing on materials related with Daikokuya Kodayu
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19K00940
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
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| Allocation Type | Multi-year Fund |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Review Section |
Basic Section 03010:Historical studies in general-related
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| Research Institution | Kagawa University |
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Principal Investigator |
Takigawa Yuko 香川大学, インターナショナルオフィス, 特命助教 (40532932)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2019-04-01 – 2024-03-31
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| Keywords | 18世紀末 / 日英交流史 / 日露交流史 / 大黒屋光太夫 / 日本図 / 対日通商交渉 / 英国国立海事博物館 |
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| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
The purpose of this research was to investigate British and Russian interest in Japan and the competition between these countries to access Japan at the end of the eighteenth century, focusing on diplomacy, economy and natural history. To achieve research purposes, I visited academic and research institutions in Germany and Britain and looked first-hand at source materials, such as maps, correspondence and diplomatic reports closely. These investigations resulted in the discovery of a map of Japan which had been stored among the Grenville Collection in the Caird Library and Archive at the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich. The map was identified as a map of Japan, which was precisely copied after one drawn by Daikokuya Kodayu in Russia and sent to Britain by Charles Whitworth, a British diplomat in Saint Petersburg. The map in Greenwich and diplomatic reports have revealed Britain's keen interest in Japan and Britain's intelligent activities in Russia at that time.
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| Free Research Field |
18世紀末から19世紀初頭の東西交流史・博物学史
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| Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements |
本研究は18世紀末、イギリスとロシアの対日政策について、大黒屋光太夫に関する在外史料を分析して明らかにすることを目的とした。本研究により在外資料を調査した結果、在英の日本関係の資料や、新出の大黒屋光太夫日本図などを発見した。さらにこの時代にイギリスが日本に対して高い関心を抱いていており、ロシアで大黒屋光太夫に由来する日本図を写し、本国に持ち帰っていたことを新史料から明らかにした。従来、大黒屋光太夫は日露交流史の枠組みの中で扱われていたが、本研究により、光太夫研究が新たにこの時代の日英露関係と極東における英露の競争を明らかにする鍵となることが示唆された。
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