Daikokuya Kōdayū

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In this Japanese name, the family name is Daikokuya.

Daikokuya Kōdayū (大黒屋 光太夫 Daikokuya Kōdayū?) (1751 - May 28, 1828) was a Japanese castaway who spent eleven years in Russia.[1][2]

His ship landed at Amchitka, Aleutian Islands. They managed to escape to the Russian mainland and had Catherine the Great allow them to go back to Japan by Kirill Laxman's effort with Alexander Bezborodko and Alexander Vorontsov. Two made it back to Japan alive, one died when they stayed in Yezo(Hokkaidō), Two stayed in Irkutsk as they became Christians, 11 died.

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[edit] Early life

Daikokuya Kodayu was born in Wakamatsu, Ise. (Suzuka, Mie, Japan) He was adopted by a merchant, Daikokuya in Shiroko, Ise.(also Suzuka, Mie)

[edit] Drift

As the captain of the ship, Shinsho-maru(神昌丸). Kodayu set sail for Yedo in 1782. The ship was caught in a storm around Enshū.(Western Shizuoka) After drifting for seven months, one man died.

[edit] Amchitka

Just after the man died, they found and landed on the island, Amchitka where Russians and Aleut people lived. They witnessed Aleuts' revolt in 1784.(Amchitka#Aleuts' revolt)

[edit] Kamchatka

Russians and Kodayu's people escaped from the island by building new ship of driftwood with their sails being made of otter fur. They sailed the ship for one and a half months. Russian officials in Kamchatka at first could not believe they had sailed from Amchitka to Kamchatka by a "hand-made boat".

[edit] Okhotsk

A captain in Kamchatka, Hokkeich(ホッケイチ), led Kodayu's people to Okhotsk.

[edit] Yakutsk

They had temporarily stayed in Yakutsk.

[edit] Irkutsk

They met Kirill Laxman as Captain Hokkeich introduced them to each other.

[edit] Tsarskoye Selo

They had assistance by others, including Kiril Laxman, in Irkutsk. Kodayu then left for Saint Petersburg in order to accompany Kiril 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 return home in the same year.

[edit] References

  1. ^ Yamashita, Tsuneo Daikokuya Kodayu 2004. Iwanami, Japan ISBN 4004308798
  2. ^ Masanori Tsuzuki, Mitarbeiterin Beatrice Segura Daikokuya Kodayu: 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

[edit] See also

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