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Report on a voyage around Uotsuri, Kuba and Kumeaka Islands

Report on a voyage around Uotsuri, Kuba, and Kumeaka Islands

(Text omitted) / The ship firstly landed on the west coast of Uotsuri Island and attempted to cast sounding leads several times in an area three to four "cables" (*1 cable = 185.2m) away from the coast, and the sea bed was extremely deep (rest omitted)

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Document title Report on a voyage around Uotsuri, Kuba and Kumeaka Islands
Date created (Western calendar) [November 2, 1885]
Date created (Japanese era) [November 2, Meiji 18]
Author(s) / Editor(s) [Tsurumatsu HAYASHI, Captain of the Izumo Maru, Nippon Yusen Kaisha]
Publisher
Name of publication On the matter of erecting territorial markers on uninhabited islands scattered between Okinawa Prefecture and Fuzhou in the Qing Dynasty
Content Report (copy) on a voyage around the Senkaku Islands by Captain Tsurumatsu HAYASHI of the Izumo Maru, a ship owned by Nippon Yusen Kaisha and hired by Okinawa Prefecture. The report was submitted when Okinawa Prefecture conducted a field survey ten years before the territorial incorporation of the Senkaku Islands (1895). It states that the islands had already been observed a number of times by foreign vessels and described in detail in various nautical journals. It also gives the descriptions of the Senkaku Islands in these journals, together with matters confirmed by Captain Tsurumatsu in the field survey.
Home Ministry stationery.
Language Japanese
Public access Open
Repository National Archives of JapanNew Window
Medium Paper/Hand-bound
Copies 5
Reference No. S1885110200201
Reference & information Follow the instruction at the National Archives of Japan
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