Daikokuya Kōdayū
Daikokuya Kōdayū (大黒屋 光太夫) (1751 – 28 May 1828) was a Japanese castaway who spent nine years in Russia.
Early life
Daikokuya Kōdayū was born in Wakamatsu,
Adrift
As the captain of the ship Shinsho-maru (神昌丸), Kōdayū set sail for
After the Russian ship which came to pick them up sank just in front of Kodayu's people and Russians, the 25 Russians and 9 Kōdayū's people escaped from the island by building a new ship of driftwood with sails made of
A captain in Kamchatka, possibly by the name Khotkevich, led Kōdayū's people to Okhotsk.[5] Kodayu's people temporarily stayed in Yakutsk. In Irkutsk, Captain Khotkevich introduced Kōdayū's people to Erik (Kirill) Laxmann. Kōdayū's people had assistance by others, including Erik Laxman, in Irkutsk. Kōdayū then left for Saint Petersburg in order to accompany Kirill to ask to be returned home in 1791. By the instrumental help of Kiril, Kodayu was granted an audience with Catherine the Great in Tsarskoye Selo and Kodayu's people were permitted to return home in the same year.[6]
In fiction
The story is told in a movie Dreams of Russia directed by Junya Sato (released in 1992) based on a book of the same name written by Yasushi Inoue (published in 1968).
References
- ISBN 4-00-430879-8
- ^ Masanori Tsuzuki, Mitarbeiterin Beatrice Segura Daikokuya Kōdayū: ein Schiffbrüchger, aber bedeutsamer Kapitän. 船頭 大黒屋光太夫:[センドウ ダイコクヤ コウダユウ:] 1995 Suzuka : Rechtsfähige Stiftung Verein für Internationale Freundschaft Suzuka BA25501779
- ^ Yasushi Inoue, Rêves de Russie, translated by Brigitte Koyama-Richard, Paris, Phébus, 2005.
- ^ Kamei Takayoshi, Daikokuya Kōdayū, Tokyo, Yoshikawa Kobunkan, Showa 39 [1964], Showa 45 [1970].
- ^ In the book 《Daikokuya Kōdayū》 (Iwanami Shoten, 2004), Japanese author Yamashita Tsuneo (山下恒夫) says Hokkeich(ホッケイチ) is ホトケーヴィチ, which sounds equivalent to a Russian name Khotkevich.
- ^ Kisaki, Ryōhei, Kodaiyu to Lakusuman: Bakumatsu Nichi-Ro Kosho no Isshokumen (Kodaiyu and Laxman: An Aspect of Japanese-Russian Relations in the Late Edo Period), Tokyo, Tosui Shobo, 1992; Yasushi Inoué, Rêves de Russie, traduit du japonais par Brigitte Koyama-Richard, Paris, Phébus, 2005.
Further reading
Keene, Donald. The Japanese Discovery of Europe, 1720 - 1830. Stanford University Press, 1952.
See also
- Kirill Laxman
- Amchitka
- Catherine the Great
- Alexander Bezborodko
- Alexander Vorontsov
- Alexander I of Russia
- Paul I of Russia
- Alexander Radishchev
- Grigory Shelikhov
- Kamchatska
- Dembei
- History of Alaska § Russian Alaska: Aleutian islands and about Shelikhov.