著者

許 海華

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.44, pp.297-318, 2011-04

---

While Japan at the end of the Edo period revised their national seclusion system and started to set forward with internationally opening policy,it was the training of translators to communicate at practical negotiations with foreign countries that was most urgently required. In the case of To tsuji 唐通事,Chinese translators at Nagasaki during the Edo period, some of the youths transferred themselves to be in charge of two languages,from solo translation for Chinese to translation for both Chinese and English. They later became very active in the frontlines for diplomacy,education and translation because of their English abilities during the periods from the end of the Edo to Meiji era. One of the typical examples was Ga Noriyuki. Ga Noriyuki was the person who flourished as a liege of Tokugawa Shogunate, a bureaucrat,an educator as well as a translator,who had been working as a Chinese translator at Nagasaki. It was his mastering English which brought him a great turning point for his life. This paper examines historical backgrouds and progress for Ga Noriyuki's mastering English from the view point of the alteration of To tsuji at Nagasaki during the periods from the end of the Edo to Meiji era, through full survey on articles on his carrers.

著者

許 海華

出版者

関西大学文化交渉学教育研究拠点(ICIS)

雑誌

東アジア文化交渉研究 (ISSN:18827748)

巻号頁・発行日

no.5, pp.267-280, 2012-02

---

The end of the Tokugawa bakufu's control of Nagasaki in 1868 also meant the demise of the Nagasaki Tōtsūji Bureau. As many of the former institution's translators were skilled linguists and experienced in foreign negotiation, they were appointed topositions the Meiji government. This use of members of a group with practical skills inforeign relations since the Edo period provided the government with an immediateoffensive corps for the New Japan. To pursue an understanding of the changes thatoccurred in institutions such as the Nagasaki Translation Bureau requires investigating its structure during the bakumatsu period. In forming an explanation of the Tōtsūji Bureau, this essay therefore draws upon two sources that illuminate the Nagasaki government offi cials during this time. The structure of the Tōtsūji Bureau during the Genji and Keiō eras, 1864 to 1867 is recreated, and furthermore, the structure of the post-1867 (Keiō 3) reformation through the period immediately after the Meiji Restoration is analysed.

著者

許 海華

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

vol.44, pp.297-318, 2011-04

---

While Japan at the end of the Edo period revised their national seclusion system and started to set forward with internationally opening policy, it was the training of translators to communicate at practical negotiations with foreign countries that was most urgently required. In the case of To tsuji 唐通事, Chinese translators at Nagasaki during the Edo period, some of the youths transferred themselves to be in charge of two languages, from solo translation for Chinese to translation for both Chinese and English. They later became very active in the frontlines for diplomacy, education and translation because of their English abilities during the periods from the end of the Edo to Meiji era. One of the typical examples was Ga Noriyuki. Ga Noriyuki was the person who flourished as a liege of Tokugawa Shogunate, a bureaucrat, an educator as well as a translator, who had been working as a Chinese translator at Nagasaki. It was his mastering English which brought him a great turning point for his life. This paper examines historical backgrouds and progress for Ga Noriyuki's mastering English from the view point of the alteration of To tsuji at Nagasaki during the periods from the end of the Edo to Meiji era, through full survey on articles on his carrers.

著者

許 海華

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

vol.44, pp.297-318, 2011-04

---

While Japan at the end of the Edo period revised their national seclusion system and started to set forward with internationally opening policy, it was the training of translators to communicate at practical negotiations with foreign countries that was most urgently required. In the case of To tsuji 唐通事, Chinese translators at Nagasaki during the Edo period, some of the youths transferred themselves to be in charge of two languages, from solo translation for Chinese to translation for both Chinese and English. They later became very active in the frontlines for diplomacy, education and translation because of their English abilities during the periods from the end of the Edo to Meiji era. One of the typical examples was Ga Noriyuki. Ga Noriyuki was the person who flourished as a liege of Tokugawa Shogunate, a bureaucrat, an educator as well as a translator, who had been working as a Chinese translator at Nagasaki. It was his mastering English which brought him a great turning point for his life. This paper examines historical backgrouds and progress for Ga Noriyuki's mastering English from the view point of the alteration of To tsuji at Nagasaki during the periods from the end of the Edo to Meiji era, through full survey on articles on his carrers.

著者

許 海華

出版者

関西大学文化交渉学教育研究拠点(ICIS)

雑誌

東アジア文化交渉研究 = Journal of East Asian Cultural Interaction Studies (ISSN:18827748)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.5, pp.267-280, 2012-02-01

---

The end of the Tokugawa bakufu’s control of Nagasaki in 1868 also meant the demise of the Nagasaki Tōtsūji Bureau. As many of the former institution’s translators were skilled linguists and experienced in foreign negotiation, they were appointed topositions the Meiji government. This use of members of a group with practical skills inforeign relations since the Edo period provided the government with an immediateoffensive corps for the New Japan. To pursue an understanding of the changes thatoccurred in institutions such as the Nagasaki Translation Bureau requires investigating its structure during the bakumatsu period. In forming an explanation of the Tōtsūji Bureau, this essay therefore draws upon two sources that illuminate the Nagasaki government offi cials during this time. The structure of the Tōtsūji Bureau during the Genji and Keiō eras, 1864 to 1867 is recreated, and furthermore, the structure of the post-1867 (Keiō 3) reformation through the period immediately after the Meiji Restoration is analysed.