A hand drawn map that appears in a manuscript that accounts the experience of four Japanese fishermen who got lost on their way to Edo in 1793. After drifting for six months they made landfall on one of the Aleutian Islands, where they were found by Russians who took them to Irtutsk where they spent nine years. Eventually they were called to St. Petersburg. There they joined the first Russian round-the-world voyage which after 16 months, brought the fisherman back to Japan, landing in Nagasaki in 1804.
Kankai ibun, v. 1. 1807. (Description and travel of circumnavigation of seas. v. 1. 1807.)




















