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| *''Japanese:'' 通航一覧 ''(Tsuukou ichiran)'' | | *''Japanese:'' 通航一覧 ''(Tsuukou ichiran)'' |
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− | ''Tsûkô ichiran'' is a compilation of documents related to the foreign relations of the [[Tokugawa shogunate]]. Compiled in [[1853]] by [[Hayashi Fukusai]] and others, it spans the period from [[1566]] to [[1825]]. Descriptions of Japan's relations are organized by country, and chronologically within that, across 350 volumes. | + | ''Tsûkô ichiran'' is a compilation of documents related to the foreign relations of the [[Tokugawa shogunate]]. Compiled in [[1853]] by [[Hayashi Fukusai]], [[Miyazaki Seishin]], and twelve others associated with the [[Shoheizaka gakumonjo|Shôheizaka gakumonjo]], it spans the period from [[1566]] to [[1825]]. Descriptions of Japan's relations are organized chronologically within sections divided by country, across 350 volumes. |
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− | The text was reprinted in moveable type and published in eight volumes, from 1912-1913, the 23 volume appendix on coastal defenses, ''Tsûkô ichiran zokushû'', being published as well. | + | The text was reprinted in moveable type and published in eight volumes, from 1912-1913. |
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| + | A 23 volume appendix on coastal defenses, ''Tsûkô ichiran zokushû'', was published as well. It covers events from [[1829]]/8 to [[1851]]/5, in a total of 152 volumes. This too was edited by Miyazaki Seishin, along with [[Hayashi Okei|Hayashi Ôkei]]<!--林鶯渓--> (the son of Hayashi Fukusai) and sixteen others, from 1853 or 1854 until 1856. Manuscript copies exist today in the collection of the Cabinet Office (''Naikaku''), and in the ''[[Shiryohensanjo|Shiryôhensanjo]]'' of the [[University of Tokyo]], where it is included in a collection of documents and objects obtained from the (former) [[Ministry of Foreign Affairs]]. |
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| + | Both of these volumes are essentially simply compilations of diplomatic documents and other historical documents, without analytical or subjective commentary. |
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| + | ==References== |
| + | *Miyagi Eishô 宮城栄昌, ''Ryûkyû shisha no Edo nobori'' 琉球使者の江戸上り, Tokyo: Daiichi Shobô (1982), 1-2. |
| + | *[http://ambitious.lib.hokudai.ac.jp/hoppodb/kyuki/doc/0A026750000000.html Description at Hokkaido University Library Website] |
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| [[Category:Historical Documents]] | | [[Category:Historical Documents]] |
| [[Category:Edo Period]] | | [[Category:Edo Period]] |