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Substack series on Omoto
Please do subscribe to Pernille Rudlin’s Substack (currently free, but paid also welcome!), where the story of Omoto, the first Japanese woman to travel to the West is being serialised.
The Wild Men of Yesso
In December 1864, William Martin Wood (1828-1907), a British-Indian journalist, presented a paper to the Ethnological Society of London on The Hairy Men of Yesso. Yesso was the English rendering for Ezo, or Hokkaido, as it is now known. “The Hairy Men” were Wood’s description of the Ainu people, or Ainos as Wood and others…
Did Gingero and Kumakichi visit Japan in 1886?
In the course of researching whether Otake visited Japan in 1886 (final version of the post here ), I came across this in the Rising Sun and Nagasaki Express of 22nd December 1886: “Mr WH Gingiro, Mr Y Kumakichi for London on the Teheran from Yokohama and way ports”. The Teheran was a P&O steamer…
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