Drifting Toward the Southeast: The Story of Five Japanese Castaways
By Unknown Author.
Description
Drifting Toward the Southeast is the first complete English language edition of Hyoson Kiryaku—the official, autobiographical account of John Manjiro’s historic voyage to the United States as told to the officials of the Shogunate in 1852. This important historical account was hand-recorded in four brush-written volumes by samurai artist and scholar Kawada Shoryo following Manjiro’s nine-month interrogation by Shogun Tokugawa’s officials. It was prohibited from public view for many years by the Shogun’s isolation law. Spinner’s English edition, Drifting T...
ISBN(s)
0932027563, 9780932027566
