| Research Abstract |
The Research results from 2005 to 2007 are divided into two parts.
The first is related with performance of operetta in Dejima in the 1820s.
The contents are described in the " Netherlands trading house diary ". On the occasion of the Nagasaki magistrate,
The Netherlands trading house chief invited Japanese people in 1820. And performed and showed two operetta as them. One is " A quick-tempered man " and another is " Two hunters and one daughter of milk sale ". The former is a love tale which a moneylender father's daughter and a quick-tempered man unfold. The latter is what let the encounter with two hunters and one daughter of milk sale explained the non-reason of a world: two hunters are dreaming of making a fortune at a stroke pass by hunting bears and selling its fur. The daughter is reduced to milk sale as a result of the daughter's of an aristocrat elopement.
Keiga Kawahara who was Siebold's retained painter expressed the situation of performance of these two operetta to seven pictures, and it has been possessed as a " Oranda play figure volume " by " Kurofune-kan " in Kashiwazaki city, Niigata.
Moreover, " Two hunters and one daughter of milk sale " received the recording of the operetta performed by commemorating Japan and the Netherlands exchange in 2000, and analyzed the contents.
The second research is Siebold's piano. It is presented to Goemon Kumaya who is the wealthy merchant in Hagi, Yamaguchi when Siebold left Japan in 1828, and the existence is forgotten away after that on the other hand-in 1955-by Sukekazu Tanaka. When the Kumaya art museum will be inaugurated in 1965, it came to be exhibited as an important possession article, and has continued by the end of today.
Moreover, Siebold is also doing composition on this piano and is published as a score in Vienna in 1874. In it, the song with words of Japanese " Kappore " is also contained. The whole surface by which Siebold who was Japan hands is not known was able to be clarified.
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