Japanese_Delegation_to_US 1860
JAPANESE SHIPS REACH SAN FRANCISCO IN 1600S...historical fact not usually thought about or known, but significant nevertheless...
The Kanrin Maru’s voyage from Uraga to San Francisco is often cited as the first crossing of the Pacific by an all-Japanese crew sailing a Japanese ship, although the crew was advised by John M. Brooke. However, the Kanrin Maru’s was not the first Pacific crossing by a Japanese ship and crew: at least three such journeys had been made in the 17th century, before Japan's period of isolation: those by Tanaka Shōsuke in 1610, Hasekura Tsunenaga in 1614, and Yokozawa Shōgen in 1616.
Japanese_Delegation_to_US 1860
JAPANESE SHIPS REACH SAN FRANCISCO IN 1600S...historical fact not usually thought about or known, but significant nevertheless...
The Kanrin Maru’s voyage from Uraga to San Francisco is often cited as the first crossing of the Pacific by an all-Japanese crew sailing a Japanese ship, although the crew was advised by John M. Brooke. However, the Kanrin Maru’s was not the first Pacific crossing by a Japanese ship and crew: at least three such journeys had been made in the 17th century, before Japan's period of isolation: those by Tanaka Shōsuke in 1610, Hasekura Tsunenaga in 1614, and Yokozawa Shōgen in 1616.