著者

丹羽 典生

出版者

法政大学経済学部学会

雑誌

経済志林 = The Hosei University Economic Review (ISSN:00229741)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.88, no.3, pp.21-42, 2021-03-20

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This paper describes the later life of the explorer Asaeda Toshio (1893-1968), who was born in Japan and was employed as an artist and photographer on several expeditions in the United States before the war. Details of his early life before he came to the United States and his activities on the expeditions have been revealed in previous studies. However, little is known about Asaeda's life after the expeditions, and there are few documents or articles on this part of his life that summarize the relevant facts. The purpose of this paper, therefore, is to reconstruct the latter half of Asaeda Toshio's life after he ceased to participate in expeditions, during World War Two, up to the end of his life. By tracing the life of a peculiar Japanese American who lived in the U.S. during and after the war, I will also shed some light on the transformation of the world of natural history.