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Created page with "*''Japanese'': 大槻玄沢 ''(Ootsuki Gentaku)'' Ôtsuki Gentaku was a ''Rangaku'' scholar. His 1799 ''Ransetsu benwaku'' (蘭説弁惑, "Clarifying Errors in Theor..."
*''Japanese'': 大槻玄沢 ''(Ootsuki Gentaku)''
Ôtsuki Gentaku was a ''[[Rangaku]]'' scholar.
His [[1799]] ''Ransetsu benwaku'' (蘭説弁惑, "Clarifying Errors in Theories about the Dutch") was perhaps the first major Japanese work to assert that Africans were "no different from the rest of mankind," and that they were not, on the whole, as a group, less intelligent or otherwise of inherently lower birth, but rather that Africans, like anyone else, included "the noble and the lowly, ... the wise and the foolish."<ref>Gary Leupp, ''Interracial Intimacy in Japan: Western Men and Japanese Women, 1543-1900'', A&C Black (2003), 94.</ref>
Along with [[Shimura Hiroyuki]], Ôtsuki produced in [[1807]] a set of interviews called ''[[Kankai ibun]]'', which recorded the experiences of a group of Japanese castaways who had seen the Atlantic, the Straits of Magellan, and [[Hawaii]].<ref>Mitani Hiroshi, David Noble (trans.), ''Escape from Impasse'', International House of Japan (2006), 27.</ref>
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==References==
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[[Category:Edo Period]]
[[Category:Scholars and Philosophers]]
Ôtsuki Gentaku was a ''[[Rangaku]]'' scholar.
His [[1799]] ''Ransetsu benwaku'' (蘭説弁惑, "Clarifying Errors in Theories about the Dutch") was perhaps the first major Japanese work to assert that Africans were "no different from the rest of mankind," and that they were not, on the whole, as a group, less intelligent or otherwise of inherently lower birth, but rather that Africans, like anyone else, included "the noble and the lowly, ... the wise and the foolish."<ref>Gary Leupp, ''Interracial Intimacy in Japan: Western Men and Japanese Women, 1543-1900'', A&C Black (2003), 94.</ref>
Along with [[Shimura Hiroyuki]], Ôtsuki produced in [[1807]] a set of interviews called ''[[Kankai ibun]]'', which recorded the experiences of a group of Japanese castaways who had seen the Atlantic, the Straits of Magellan, and [[Hawaii]].<ref>Mitani Hiroshi, David Noble (trans.), ''Escape from Impasse'', International House of Japan (2006), 27.</ref>
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==References==
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[[Category:Edo Period]]
[[Category:Scholars and Philosophers]]