Kankai ibun
Contributors: Shimura, Hiroyuki, 1769-1845; Japanese Rare Book Collection (Library of Congress)
Published: 1807
Place of publication: Japan
Language: jpn
Subjects: Voyages around the world; Description and travel
Notes: Ms.

Original preface by Ōtsuki Shigekata dated Bunka 4 [1807], stating that he and Shimura Hiroyuki prepared this work after questioning crewmen who returned to Japan, 13 years after the shipwreck.

Shahon (hand-written copy), the copiers and the date of this copy not known.

Detailed table of contents (in shukan) lists shukan and 15 v. in 16, covering 13 years from Kansei 5 [1793] through Bunka 2 [1805]; however, this work does not match with the table.

On double leaves, oriental style (fukurotoji).

LC copy bound in western style (yōsōbon) in 3 v.; in process of binding, seemingly original covers removed.

Asakawa collection (APR 18 1907)

Kokusho sōmokuroku, v. 2, p. 279.