Oguri Jukichi

In this Japanese name, the family name is "Oguri".

Oguri Jukichi (小栗重吉^?, extra) 1785-1853 was one of the first Japanese citizens known to have reached present day California. He and his fourteen man crew, bound for Edo, were sailing off the Japanese coast in 1813 when their ship, the Tokujomaru, was disabled in a storm. The ship floated across the Pacific Ocean until Oguri and two surviving crew members were rescued by an American ship off the California coast near Santa Barbara in 1815.^[1]

References

^ Schodt, Frederik L. (2003). Native American in the Land of the Shogun: Ranald MacDonald and the Opening of Japan. Stone Bridge Press. p. 59. ISBN 978-1880656778. http://books.google.com/books?id=3NTiU0fOh20C.

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Name	Oguri, Jukichi
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Date of birth	1785
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Date of death	1852
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