The Italo-Japanese Relations before and after the Meiji Restoration -Centering on the silkworm-egg trade and diplomacy-

2015 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 25870397
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Research Field: Japanese history; History of Europe and America
• Research Institution: Osaka University
• Principal Investigator: BERTELLI Antonio 大阪大学, 言語文化研究科(研究院), 准教授 (60598431)
• Project Period (FY): 2013-04-01 – 2016-03-31
• Keywords: イタリア / 蚕種商人 / 幕末・明治期 / ジャーコモ・ファルファラ / ピエトロ・フェ / 駐日イタリア公使

Outline of Final Research Achievements

During the last three years, I could carry on my research about the Italo-Japanese relations during the Bakumatsu and the first years of the Meiji era. The ultimate purpose of this research is to understand and clarify the importance of the role of Italy in Japan during those years.In Italy (Milano, Torino, Roma, etc...) and in Japan (Tokyo, Yokohama, etc...) I could find and gather many unpublished documents closely related to the two countries. Successively, I used some of those documents to write a specialized book (work in progress) and some articles and presentations and various lectures, and some of them will be extremely useful for the research I am planning to do in the next three years.

Free Research Field

幕末・明治初期における日伊交流史