Tsuruta Kei

• Japanese: 鶴田 啓 (Tsuruta Kei)

Tsuruta Kei is a professor at the University of Tokyo, specializing in the history of foreign relations in early modern Japan, especially relations with Korea.

He is originally from Kanagawa prefecture.

Tsuruta has overseen the compilation of several sets of historical documents, including a catalog of documents related to the Sô clan of Tsushima (Sôke shiryô mokuroku, documents related to Kondô Shûzô and Ezo (Kondô Shûzô Ezo-chi kankei shiryô), and the diary of Saitô Gesshin (Saitô Gesshin nikki).

Selected Publications

In English

• "The Establishment and Characteristics of the Tsushima Gate," Acta Asiatica 67 (1994).

In Japanese

• Tsushima kara mita Nicchô kankei ("Japan-Korea relations as seen from Tsushima"), Nihonshi libretto series, Yamakawa shuppan, 2006.
• "Bakuhan kenryôku to bôeki - Tsushima han no baai wo chûshin ni" ("Shogunate-domain authority/power and trade - with a focus on the case of Tsushima Domain"), The Bulletin of the Department of Historical Documents, NIJL (34), 2003.
• Tsushima Sôke monjo - Daikanminkoku kokushi hensan iinkai shozô ("Tsushima Sô clan documents - in the collections of the National Institute of Korean History"), National Institute of Korean History, 2002.
• "Nikkan kankei shi kenkyû no gendankai wo kangaeru kenkyû shûkai hôkoku - Nikkan sôhô no shiryô kara miru sesshoku no ba" ("Research Meetings: The Point of Contact between Japan and Korea as Seen from Materials of Both Sides"), University of Tokyo Shiryôhensanjo kiyô 11, 2001.
• "17 seiki no Matsumae han to Ezo chi" ("Matsumae han and Ezo-chi in the 17th century"), in Fujita Satoru (ed.), 17 seiki no Nihon to higashi ajia ("17th century Japan and East Asia"), Yamakawa Shuppan, 2000.
• "Saitô Gesshin nikki no bakumatsu ("The Bakumatsu of the Diary of Saitô Gesshin"), in Nikki ga kataru 19 seiki no Yokohama ("19th century Yokohama as told in diaries"), Yamakawa Shuppan, 1998.
• "Edo bakufu kankeisha no Ainu shuchô kan" ("The Ainu chief perspective of those related to the Edo shogunate") in Kyôkai no Nihonshi ("Japanese History of Borders"), Yamakawa Shuppan, 1997.
• "Sore ha sakoku datta no ka?" ("Was that Sakoku?"), in Rekishi chiri kyôiku - tokushû: atarashii sakoku no mikata, manabikata ("History geography education - special edition: a new way of seeing, learning, 'sakoku'"), 1997.
• "Kinsei daimyô no kan'i jonin katei" ("The process of appointments to court rank of early modern daimyô"), in Nihon rekishi (Japan History), No. 577, 1996.
• "Kansei-Bunka ki no taigai kankei" ("Foreign relations of the Kansei through Bunka eras"), in Atarashii kinseishi 5 kokka to taigai kankei ("New Early Modern History; Foreign Relations with Five Countries"), Shinjinbutsu ôraisha, 1996.
• "Tsushima, Edo, Pusan - Tenmei 5nen, Sô Isaburô kyûshi ikken wo megutte" ("Tsushima, Edo, Pusan - the 1785 incident of the sudden death of Sô Isaburô"), in Tanaka Takeo (ed.), Zen kindai no Nihon to higashi ajia ("Japan and East Asia before the Modern Period"), Yoshikawa kôbunkan, 1995.
• "Man'en gannen, Tsushima han ni yoru Chôsen he no Shikoku tsûshô kokuchi ikken" (The 1860 Korea Shikoku commerce announcement incident, by way of Tsushima Domain), in 19 seiki no sekai to Yokohama ("Yokohama and the world of the 19th century"), Yamakawa shuppan, 1993.
• "Kinsei Nihon no kokkyô" ("The Borders of Early Modern Japan"), in Kokusai kôryû ("International Exchange") No. 59, 1992.
• "Kinsei Nicchô kankei no kôzô - Nicchô kankei to Tsushima han" ("The structure of early modern Japan-Korea relations - Japan-Korea relations and Tsushima Domain"), in Nikkan no kôryû to hikaku - rekishi to genzai ("Proceedings of University of Tokyo and Seoul University First Joint Symposium: Japan-Korea Exchange and Comparisons, History and Today"), 1992.
• "Kinsei Nihon no yotsu no kuchi" ("The four "mouths" [gates] of early modern Japan"), in Ajia no naka no Nihonshi II: gaikô to sensô ("Japanese History within Asia II: Diplomacy and War"), Tokyo University Press, 1992.
• "Rôjû hôsho wo meguru kobunshogaku-teki kenkyû ni tsuite" ("On research in the mode of the study of historical documents, especially hôsho issued by shogunate elders"), in Kinsei bakufu monjo no kobunshogaku-teki kenkyû ("The Research in the style of the study of historical documents, of early modern shogunate documents"), Ministry of Education, 1992.
• "Kinsei Nicchô bôeki to Nicchô sesshoku no tokushitsu" ("Early modern Japan-Korea commerce, and the special features of Japan-Korea contact"), in Rekishi hyôron ("History Critique"), no. 481, 1990.

External Links

• Professor Tsuruta's personal webpage at U. of Tokyo - incl. link to considerable collection of data on the Ryûkyû Kingdom as seen in the Tsûkô ichiran