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*''Other Names: Bonin Islands''
*''Japanese'': 小笠原諸島 ''(Ogasawara shotou)''
The Ogasawara Islands, also known as the Bonin Islands, are a group of small islands administratively governed as part of the [[Tokyo]] Metropolitan Prefecture, but located in the [[Pacific Ocean]], a considerable distance from "mainland" Japan. Originally settled by a diverse mix of White Americans, Native Hawaiians, and others, and claimed by the [[United Kingdom]] and [[United States]] in the early 19th century after being previously discovered but not settled by Japanese sailors in the 17th century, the islands were officially incorporated into Japanese territory in the late 19th century.
The island group was historically often known as the Bonin Islands in English; this derived from the Japanese term ''bunin'' or ''mujin'' 無人, meaning "uninhabited."
==Geography==
The Ogasawara Islands consist of a group of islands known as Chichijima, Hahajima, Anijima, and Otôtojima (literally, "father island," "mother island," "big brother island," and "little brother island"), surrounded by a number of smaller islets, plus, at some distance to the south, [[Iwo Jima]] (J: ''Iôtô'').
==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/>
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>
[[Commodore Perry|Commodore Matthew Perry]] visited the Ogasawaras from June 9 to 30, [[1854]], during his second journey to Japan & [[Ryukyu Kingdom|Ryukyu]], and claimed the islands on behalf of the United States. During his time there, on June 14, Perry purchased land from a man named Nathaniel Savory on what the residents then called Peel Island; this largest island in the group is today known as Chichijima.<ref>Ishin Shiryô Kôyô 維新史料綱要, vol 1 (1937), pp412-414.</ref>
The United Kingdom officially claimed the islands in [[1827]]. A new group of some thirty American settlers (incl. a number of Native Hawaiians and/or other Pacific Islanders) arrived on the island in the summer of [[1830]].
The British government quietly gave up its claims to the Ogasawara Islands in [[1875]]; the [[Meiji government]] officially declared the Ogasawara Islands to be Japanese territory the following year.
Though initially grouped in with the Ryukyu Islands as territories not immediately restored to Japanese administration with the end of the Allied Occupation in 1952, the Ogasawaras were restored to Japanese administration soon afterwards.<ref>Gallery labels, Okinawa Peace Memorial Museum, Itoman, Okinawa.</ref>
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==References==
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[[Category:Geographic Locations]]
*''Japanese'': 小笠原諸島 ''(Ogasawara shotou)''
The Ogasawara Islands, also known as the Bonin Islands, are a group of small islands administratively governed as part of the [[Tokyo]] Metropolitan Prefecture, but located in the [[Pacific Ocean]], a considerable distance from "mainland" Japan. Originally settled by a diverse mix of White Americans, Native Hawaiians, and others, and claimed by the [[United Kingdom]] and [[United States]] in the early 19th century after being previously discovered but not settled by Japanese sailors in the 17th century, the islands were officially incorporated into Japanese territory in the late 19th century.
The island group was historically often known as the Bonin Islands in English; this derived from the Japanese term ''bunin'' or ''mujin'' 無人, meaning "uninhabited."
==Geography==
The Ogasawara Islands consist of a group of islands known as Chichijima, Hahajima, Anijima, and Otôtojima (literally, "father island," "mother island," "big brother island," and "little brother island"), surrounded by a number of smaller islets, plus, at some distance to the south, [[Iwo Jima]] (J: ''Iôtô'').
==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/>
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>
[[Commodore Perry|Commodore Matthew Perry]] visited the Ogasawaras from June 9 to 30, [[1854]], during his second journey to Japan & [[Ryukyu Kingdom|Ryukyu]], and claimed the islands on behalf of the United States. During his time there, on June 14, Perry purchased land from a man named Nathaniel Savory on what the residents then called Peel Island; this largest island in the group is today known as Chichijima.<ref>Ishin Shiryô Kôyô 維新史料綱要, vol 1 (1937), pp412-414.</ref>
The United Kingdom officially claimed the islands in [[1827]]. A new group of some thirty American settlers (incl. a number of Native Hawaiians and/or other Pacific Islanders) arrived on the island in the summer of [[1830]].
The British government quietly gave up its claims to the Ogasawara Islands in [[1875]]; the [[Meiji government]] officially declared the Ogasawara Islands to be Japanese territory the following year.
Though initially grouped in with the Ryukyu Islands as territories not immediately restored to Japanese administration with the end of the Allied Occupation in 1952, the Ogasawaras were restored to Japanese administration soon afterwards.<ref>Gallery labels, Okinawa Peace Memorial Museum, Itoman, Okinawa.</ref>
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==References==
<references/>
[[Category:Geographic Locations]]
