著者

松浦 章

出版者

関西大学東西学術研究所

雑誌

関西大学東西学術研究所紀要 (ISSN:02878151)

巻号頁・発行日

no.37, pp.15-48, 2004-04

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The Sino-Japanese steamship lines were started by the foreign steamship companies that came to Japan in the last days of Tokugawa regime. The leading character in Jules Verne's 'Le Tour du Monde en Quatre-Vingts Jours', published in 1873, crossed the Pacific between Yokohama and San Francisco on a steamship run by Pacific Mail Steam Company. This company also had a line extending further from Yokohama to Shanghai. The steamship lines between Japan and other countries were monopolized by American and other forign companies before 1875. But in 1875 a Japanese company entered the scene.. The first one was the steamship line between Japan and Shanghai, China as the first overseas line in Japan. Under the instructions of the Japanese Government, M. B. S. S. Co, opened a line from Yokohama to Shanghai via Kobe, Shimonoseki, and Nagasaki on February 3.1875. It was a regular service leaving Yokohama for Shanghai every Wednesday, and Shanghai for Yokohama every Sunday. The line was succeeded by N. Y. S. S. Co. that was newly founded on October 1, 1885. This paper discusses the use of the steamship lines by the Chinese and the Japanese people in the 30 and some years from the opening of the regular line between China and Japan by the Japanese steamship company to the fall of the Qing Dynasty.