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*''Japanese'': 択捉島 ''(Etorofu tô)''
Iturup is one of the [[Kuril Islands]] to the northeast of [[Hokkaido]].
Explored by both Japanese and Russian explorers in the late 18th to early 19th centuries, Iturup was declared in the [[1854]] [[Treaty of Shimoda]] to be the northernmost part of Japanese territory, while [[Urup]], the next island northwards in the chain, would be the southernmost in the Russian territory.<ref>Mitani Hiroshi, David Noble (trans.), ''Escape from Impasse'', International House of Japan (2006), 247-250, 292.</ref> Though Russian ships had sailed along the coast of the full island chain as early as the 1730s, it was in the 1760s that Japanese and Russians both first began to more fully explore the islands. Around [[1800]], the [[Tokugawa shogunate]] declared Iturup and the islands to the south to be Japanese territory, and assigned the [[Nanbu clan|Nanbu]] and [[Tsugaru clan|Tsugaru houses]] to aid shogunal troops in defending the islands. These Japanese outposts came under attack in [[1807]] by subordinates of Russian captain [[Nikolai Rezanov]].<ref>Mitani, 13-15.</ref>
It was in the vicinity of Iturup (or [[Kunashiri]], the next island to the south) that [[Vasily Golovnin]] was captured by Japanese authorities in [[1811]].<ref>Gallery labels, [[Toyo Bunko|Tôyô Bunko]].[https://www.flickr.com/photos/toranosuke/35917642362/sizes/l][https://www.flickr.com/photos/toranosuke/35277668013/sizes/l/]</ref>
Following the Treaty of Shimoda, [[Date Yoshikuni]], lord of [[Sendai han]], was assigned to oversee the defense of Iturup, Kunashiri, and several other areas in [[Ezo]].<ref>Ishin Shiryô Kôyô 維新史料綱要, vol 2 (1937), 168.</ref>
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==References==
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[[Category:Geographic Locations]]
[[Category:Edo Period]]
[[Category:Bakumatsu]]
Iturup is one of the [[Kuril Islands]] to the northeast of [[Hokkaido]].
Explored by both Japanese and Russian explorers in the late 18th to early 19th centuries, Iturup was declared in the [[1854]] [[Treaty of Shimoda]] to be the northernmost part of Japanese territory, while [[Urup]], the next island northwards in the chain, would be the southernmost in the Russian territory.<ref>Mitani Hiroshi, David Noble (trans.), ''Escape from Impasse'', International House of Japan (2006), 247-250, 292.</ref> Though Russian ships had sailed along the coast of the full island chain as early as the 1730s, it was in the 1760s that Japanese and Russians both first began to more fully explore the islands. Around [[1800]], the [[Tokugawa shogunate]] declared Iturup and the islands to the south to be Japanese territory, and assigned the [[Nanbu clan|Nanbu]] and [[Tsugaru clan|Tsugaru houses]] to aid shogunal troops in defending the islands. These Japanese outposts came under attack in [[1807]] by subordinates of Russian captain [[Nikolai Rezanov]].<ref>Mitani, 13-15.</ref>
It was in the vicinity of Iturup (or [[Kunashiri]], the next island to the south) that [[Vasily Golovnin]] was captured by Japanese authorities in [[1811]].<ref>Gallery labels, [[Toyo Bunko|Tôyô Bunko]].[https://www.flickr.com/photos/toranosuke/35917642362/sizes/l][https://www.flickr.com/photos/toranosuke/35277668013/sizes/l/]</ref>
Following the Treaty of Shimoda, [[Date Yoshikuni]], lord of [[Sendai han]], was assigned to oversee the defense of Iturup, Kunashiri, and several other areas in [[Ezo]].<ref>Ishin Shiryô Kôyô 維新史料綱要, vol 2 (1937), 168.</ref>
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==References==
<references/>
[[Category:Geographic Locations]]
[[Category:Edo Period]]
[[Category:Bakumatsu]]