2023 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
The dawn of the Italo-Japanese relations - Centering on travel journals by Italians exploring inner regions of Japan in the years immediately following the Meiji Restoration
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20K00914
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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 | Osaka University |
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Principal Investigator |
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| Project Period (FY) |
2020-04-01 – 2024-03-31
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| Keywords | 日伊交流史 / 未刊史料 / マティルド・サリエ・ド・ラ・トゥール / ウーゴ・ピサ / 幕末・明治初期 / 蚕種貿易 / 駐日イタリア公使 |
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| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, I could not travel as I planned in order to gather new documents and present my research achievements at conferences both in Japan and abroad. However, I could concentrate on research activity, and I succeeded in transcribing, annotating, and translating into English the unpublished manuscripts (in French) about late Edo-early Meiji Japan written by Mathilde Sallier de La Tour, the spouse of the first Italian Minister in Japan, which I published in a 2-volume book. Also, I could transcribe a large part of the memoirs written by Ugo Pisa, a young secretary of the Italian Legation in Japan, and I could write an article and do an oral presentation (at Hong Kong University) about their contents. Finally, I could visit the Italian Foreign Ministry historical archives, where I could discover and photograph a large amount of new documents about Japan, which I will need to complete my book (work in progress) about the dawn of Italo-Japanese diplomatic relations.
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| Free Research Field |
国際交流史、日伊交流史
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| Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements |
本研究によって、現在まで日本外交史においてあまり注目されてこなかった幕末・明治初期の日本におけるイタリアの立場と役割について明らかにできました。また、日本を訪れたイタリア人などが遺した未刊史料を新たに発見し、翻刻し、英訳することによって、同時代の日本外交史に携わる国内外の研究者たちに初めてイタリア側史料を紹介し、その重要性を強調できました。特にイタリア公使夫人マティルドが1869年に行った日本内地旅行を中心とした旅行記は、有名なイザベラ・バードのUnbeaten Tracks in Japanよりおよそ10年早く書かれており、西洋人女性による日本旅行記の中で最古のものであると言えます。
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