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==History==

==History==

The crew of a trading ship which blew off-course sometime around [[1669]]-[[1675]] were perhaps the first Japanese to set foot on the islands. Their eventual return to [[Edo]] reportedly became well-known enough, or talked about enough, that Dutch physician [[Engelbert Kaempfer]] heard about it roughly twenty years later, and wrote about it in his diary.<ref name=leca>Radu Leca, “Stripes and Feathers: Trade and the Spatial Imaginary in Late Seventeenth-Century Japan,” ''Japanese Art – Transcultural Perspectives'', ed. Melanie Trede, Christine Guth, and Mio Wakita, Brill Pub. (2025), p183.</ref> An expedition already planned by the [[Tokugawa shogunate]] since 1669 then traveled there in 1675, and brought back a number of exotic items, including [[aromatic woods]] and new species of birds.<ref name=leca/>

The crew of a trading ship which blew off-course sometime around [[1669]]-[[1675]] were perhaps the first Japanese to set foot on the islands. Their eventual return to [[Edo]] reportedly became well-known enough, or talked about enough, that Dutch physician [[Engelbert Kaempfer]] heard about it roughly twenty years later, and wrote about it in his diary.<ref name=leca>Radu Leca, “Stripes and Feathers: Trade and the Spatial Imaginary in Late Seventeenth-Century Japan,” ''Japanese Art – Transcultural Perspectives'', ed. Melanie Trede, Christine Guth, and Mio Wakita, Brill Pub. (2025), p183.</ref> An expedition already planned by the [[Tokugawa shogunate]] since 1669 then traveled there in 1675, led by [[Shimaya Ichizaemon]], and brought back a number of exotic items, including [[aromatic woods]] and new species of birds.<ref name=leca/>

A map dedicated to describing the Ogasawaras was included by [[Hayashi Shihei]] in his [[1785]] ''[[Sangoku tsuran zusetsu|Sangoku tsûran zusetsu]]'', a set of maps of [[Ezo]], [[Korea]], the [[Ryukyu Islands]], the Ogasawaras, and the region overall.<ref>Hayashi Shihei. ''Sangoku tsûran zusetsu''. Edo, 1785. University of Hawaii Hamilton Library Sakamaki-Hawley Collection. HW 552-553.</ref>

A map dedicated to describing the Ogasawaras was included by [[Hayashi Shihei]] in his [[1785]] ''[[Sangoku tsuran zusetsu|Sangoku tsûran zusetsu]]'', a set of maps of [[Ezo]], [[Korea]], the [[Ryukyu Islands]], the Ogasawaras, and the region overall.<ref>Hayashi Shihei. ''Sangoku tsûran zusetsu''. Edo, 1785. University of Hawaii Hamilton Library Sakamaki-Hawley Collection. HW 552-553.</ref>