TY - CHAP

T1 - Japan in the middle of the 19th century through the eyes of Russian traveler Ivan Goncharov (based on the library collections of the Faculty of Asian and African Studies, St. Petersburg State University)

AU - Филиппов, Александр Викторович

AU - Азаркина, Милана Александровна

N1 - Philippov A.V., Azarkina M.A. Japan in the middle of the 19th century through the eyes of Russian traveler Ivan Goncharov (based on the library collections of the Faculty of Asian and African Studies, St. Petersburg State University) // Наследие: культура, история, коммуникация: IV Междунар. науч. форум «Наследие» (Новосибирск, 18 сент.– 18 нояб. 2023): Сборн. науч. статей / Отв. ред. А.С.Зуев, отв. секр. Д.В.Ильина [и др.]; М-во науки и высш. образования РФ, НГУ, ГИ, НОЦ «Наследие». Новосибирск: СО РАН, 2023. С.45-58.

PY - 2023/11/20

Y1 - 2023/11/20

N2 - The article analyzes the perception of Japan in the middle of the 19th century through the eyes of the Russian writer Ivan Goncharov. As secretary of Yevfimiy Putyatin’s mission (who concluded the first Russian-Japanese treaty in 1855), he kept travel notes, which later turned into a famous essay about a trip to Japan. The study is based on a rare edition of “Russians in Japan”, published in 1855, a few years before the appearance of the famous book “Frigate Pallada”. Goncharov’s notes marked the beginning of a new stage of awareness about Japan in the Russian Empire. His impressions added new colors to the portrayal of the country of Rising Sun, which Russians already knew from notes about the captivity of Vasily Golovnin (1816) and the three-volume work of the famous German Japanologist Philipp Franz von Siebold (1854). The valuable edition of Goncharov’s notes from the Library of the Faculty of Asian and African Studies of St. Petersburg State University (with an inscription from the author to Putyatin) differs from the text in the “Frigate Pallada” that was subjected to severe revision. Unlike this later version, this one, in many ways, resembles the unredacted travel notes made by Gonncharov during the Putyatin’s mission. Also, Iosif Goshkevich, who mastered the Japanese language during his stay in the country, accompanied Yevfimiy Putyatin as an interpreter. “Russian-Japanese Dictionary” (in fact, it is a Japanese-Russian dictionary) was published by him in collaboration with Tachibana Kosai in 1857. Two copies of this dictionary are available in the faculty’s Library (with autographs). One was a gift from Nicholas of Japan, and another - from the faculty teacher Kurono Yoshibumi. The authors aim to familiarize the general public with these rarities of the Library, which date back to the time of the conclusion of the first treaty between Russia and Japan and are directly related to the beginning of Russia’s in-depth acquaintance with Japan.

AB - The article analyzes the perception of Japan in the middle of the 19th century through the eyes of the Russian writer Ivan Goncharov. As secretary of Yevfimiy Putyatin’s mission (who concluded the first Russian-Japanese treaty in 1855), he kept travel notes, which later turned into a famous essay about a trip to Japan. The study is based on a rare edition of “Russians in Japan”, published in 1855, a few years before the appearance of the famous book “Frigate Pallada”. Goncharov’s notes marked the beginning of a new stage of awareness about Japan in the Russian Empire. His impressions added new colors to the portrayal of the country of Rising Sun, which Russians already knew from notes about the captivity of Vasily Golovnin (1816) and the three-volume work of the famous German Japanologist Philipp Franz von Siebold (1854). The valuable edition of Goncharov’s notes from the Library of the Faculty of Asian and African Studies of St. Petersburg State University (with an inscription from the author to Putyatin) differs from the text in the “Frigate Pallada” that was subjected to severe revision. Unlike this later version, this one, in many ways, resembles the unredacted travel notes made by Gonncharov during the Putyatin’s mission. Also, Iosif Goshkevich, who mastered the Japanese language during his stay in the country, accompanied Yevfimiy Putyatin as an interpreter. “Russian-Japanese Dictionary” (in fact, it is a Japanese-Russian dictionary) was published by him in collaboration with Tachibana Kosai in 1857. Two copies of this dictionary are available in the faculty’s Library (with autographs). One was a gift from Nicholas of Japan, and another - from the faculty teacher Kurono Yoshibumi. The authors aim to familiarize the general public with these rarities of the Library, which date back to the time of the conclusion of the first treaty between Russia and Japan and are directly related to the beginning of Russia’s in-depth acquaintance with Japan.

KW - Goncharov

KW - Russians in Japan

KW - Frigate Pallada

KW - Frigate Pallas

KW - Goshkevich

KW - Putyatin

KW - Shimoda Treaty

KW - ethnography of Japan

KW - stereotypes of Japanese behavior

UR - https://www.nsu.ru/n/humanities-institute/research/events/HeritageForum2023/book/

U2 - 10.25205/978-5-6049863-7-0-45-58

DO - 10.25205/978-5-6049863-7-0-45-58

M3 - Article in an anthology

SN - 978-5-6049863-7-0

SP - 45

EP - 58

BT - Наследие: культура, история, коммуникация:

A2 - Зуев, А.С.

PB - Издательство СО РАН

CY - Новосибирск

T2 - IV Международный научный форум «Наследие». Актуальные вопросы изучения истории, международных отношений и культур стран Востока

Y2 - 6 October 2023 through 7 October 2023

ER -