page_title: Adam Laxman
hierarchical_section_title: Adam Laxman
caption_attribution_description: English: Adam Kirillovich Laxman (1766–1806?), from "Portaits of the Crew of the Russian Ship Ekaterina that Arrived at Hakodate, Entering Port on the Eighth Day of the Sixth Month of Kansei 5 (1793) and Departing on the Seventeenth Day of the Seventh Month", Hakodate City Central Library, Hakodate, Hokkaido, Japan日本語: 寛政五年六月八日入港・七月十七日退帆函館渡来露船エカテリナ号乗組員像 / アダム・ラクスマン
context_page_description: Adam Kirillovich Laxman was a Finnish–Swedish military officer and one of the first subjects of Imperial Russia to set foot in Japan. A lieutenant in the Imperial Russian military, he was commissioned to lead an expedition to Japan in 1791, returning two Japanese castaways to their home country in exchange for trade concessions from the Tokugawa shogunate. He was the son of Erik Laxman.
context_section_description: Adam Kirillovich (Erikovich) Laxman (Russian: Адам Кириллович (Эрикович) Лаксман) (1766 – 1806?) was a Finnish–Swedish military officer and one of the first subjects of Imperial Russia to set foot in Japan. A lieutenant in the Imperial Russian military, he was commissioned to lead an expedition to Japan in 1791, returning two Japanese castaways to their home country in exchange for trade concessions from the Tokugawa shogunate. He was the son of Erik Laxman.
caption: Adam Laxman, from a 1793 Japanese painting of members of his expedition (Hakodate City Central Library)
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