John B. Putnamの日本渡航記より
米国青年の見た幕末の横浜・江戸 (1)
1995 年 1996 巻 28 号 p. 13-27
詳細
1995 年 1996 巻 28 号 p. 13-27
John B. Putnam, a 19-year-old American youth and son of the publisher George P. Putnam, was among the visitors to Japan in the first year of the trans-Pacific line set up in 1867. The lad came, saw, and in his letters reported home things he experienced. His father, the publisher, got interested in these letters and published them in a few issues of his Putnam's Magazine, making them a fine series of record of the early American interest in the trans-Pacific voyage and Japan. Extracts from the early part of this series are introduced in the present paper with some commentaries.
