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Documents concerning the Yaeyama Islands - Kuba Island

Documents concerning the Yaeyama Islands - Kuba Island
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A total of 78 Itoman residents traveled to the islands of Kuba and Uotsuri.
They consisted of 32 persons traveling on the Daiyu Maru, 26 on bonito ships, and 20 from Yonaguni.
The report was accompanied by one yakogai (green turban snail) shell harvested on said islands, for which I disbursed four Kan'ei coins. [Hanawa's name seal]
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Document title Documents concerning the Yaeyama Islands - Kuba Island
Date created (Western calendar) April 16, 1890 - December 25, 1889
Date created (Japanese era) April 16, Meiji 23 - December 25, Meiji 22
Author(s) / Editor(s) Hanawa Tadao / Nishi Tsunenori / Sakai Toyoaki
Publisher Yaeyama Islands Public Office, Okinawa Prefecture / Okinawa Prefectural Government
Name of publication Documents concerning the Yaeyama Islands Kuba Island
Content This record is one of the administrative documents kept by Hanawa Tadao, who was working at the Yaeyama Islands Public Office (now the Ishigaki City Office) as an administrative official (kenzoku) of Okinawa Prefecture at the time in 1890. It documents an interview survey on the state of fisheries in the Senkaku Islands. Attached documents include a request from the Director of the Yaeyama Islands Public Office to the Governor of Okinawa Prefecture for the Senkaku Islands to be incorporated into the jurisdiction of the Yaeyama Islands Public Office, and correspondence exchanged between the Public Office and the Okinawa Prefectural Government.
Language Japanese
Public access Open
Repository Okinawa Prefectural Library (Japanese Only)New Window
Medium Paper / Hand-bound
Copies 6
Reference No. S1890041600103
How to access Follow the licensing procedure at the Local Archives Room, Okinawa Prefectural Library. / View images at the Rare Document Digital Archive, Okinawa Prefectural Library.
Notes Handwritten (brush and ink), record kept by Mr Hanawa Tadao, founder of the Onko Academic Society. Title added by the Onko Academic Society. There is also a horizontal manuscript by the Onko Academic Society (*Mr Masao Saito). [1887-1894].
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