2012 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

Study on the national recognition and world-view of Matsudaira Sadanobu

Research Project

Project/Area Number	21520670
Research Category	Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
Allocation Type	Single-year Grants
Section	一般
Research Field	Japanese history
Research Institution	Kyoto University
Principal Investigator	IWASAKI Naoko 京都大学, 総合博物館, 教授 (80303759)
Project Period (FY)	2009 – 2012
Keywords	鎖国 / ロシア / 松平定信 / 華夷観念 / 蘭学
Research Abstract	As for this study, there is the greatest characteristic at the point where I placed a foreign policy from end of 18th century to the early 19th cen tury in dynamism called the transformation of the foreign recognition. The concrete result is as follows. (1)Ezo policy of Matsudaira Sadanobu was an important epoch to realize the direct control of Ezo by the shogunate. (2) The diplomatic negotiations with Russia by Sadanobu were based on the plan of traditional foreign relations of Japan. (3) In diplomatic negotiations with Russia, Sadanobu placed Japan as a constitutional state with the courtesy namely a state of the civilization. The policy of Sadanobu was derived from deep knowledge for civilized country Russia. (4) Idea that they should close the country, was established in Japan in the wake of the Russo-Japanese conflict of the early 19th century.