Sangoku Tsūran Zusetsu (三国通覧図説, An Illustrated Description of Three Countries) by Hayashi Shihei (1738–1793) was published in Japan in 1786. This book represents one of the earliest attempts to define Japan in terms of its outer boundaries. It represented a modern effort to distinguish Japan from the neighboring nations.
The book describes those three surrounding nations: the Joseon Dynasty (Korea), the Ryukyu Kingdom (Ryukyu Islands/Okinawa) and Ezo (Hokkaido), as well as the yet uninhabited Bonin Islands.
A copy of the Sangoku Tsūran Zusetsu was brought to Europe by Isaac Titsingh. In Paris, the text represented the first appearance of Korean han'gŭl in Europe. After Titsingh's death, the printed original and Titsingh's translation were purchased by Jean-Pierre Abel-Rémusat at the Collège de France, where—through a series of errors on Abel-Rémusat's part—it gave the Bonin Islands their name. After Rémusat's death, Julius Klaproth at the Institut Royal in Paris published his version of Titsingh's work. In 1832, the Oriental Translation Fund of Great Britain and Ireland supported the posthumous abridged publication of Titsingh's French translation.
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Citations
- Hayashi (1786).
- Traganou (2004), p. 209, citing Morris-Suzuki (1997), p. 23.
- Cullen (2003), p. 137.
- ^ Vos (2006), p. 7.
- ^ Kublin (1953), p. 35.
- Klaproth (1832).
- Gulik, W.R. van. (1982). Irezumi: The Pattern of Dermatography in Japan, p. 181.
Bibliography
- Cullen, Louis M. (2003), A History of Japan, 1582–1941: Internal and External Worlds, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, ISBN 9780521821551, OCLC 50694793.
- Hayashi, Shihei (1786), 三国通覧図説 , Tokyo: autograph manuscript, OCLC 44014900.
- Klaproth, Julius (1832), San Kokf Tsou Ran To Sets, ou, Aperçu Général des Trois Royaumes (in French), Paris: Oriental Translation Fund..., OCLC 2563166.
- Kublin, Hyman (March 1953), "The Discovery of the Bonin Islands: A Reexamination" (PDF), Annals of the Association of American Geographers, vol. 43, Milton Park: Taylor & Francis, pp. 27–46, doi:10.2307/2561081, JSTOR 2561081.
- Morris-Suzuki, Tessa (1997), Re-inventing Japan: Time, Space, Nation, Armonk: Sharpe, ISBN 9780765633415, OCLC 471751407.
- Traganou, Jilly (2004), The Tōkaidō Road: Traveling and Rrepresentation in Edo and Meiji Japan, New York: Rutledge Curzon, ISBN 9780415310918, OCLC 52347509.
- Vos, Ken (2006), Accidental Acquisitions: The Nineteenth-Century Korean Collections in the National Museum of Ethnology, Part 1 (PDF), National Museum of Ethnology, archived from the original (PDF) on 2012-06-22.
External links
- Waseda University — Hayashi Shihei. (1785). 三国通覧図説 (Sangoku Tsuran Zusetsu)