著者

加藤 九祚 Kyuzo Kato

出版者

国立民族学博物館

雑誌

国立民族学博物館研究報告 = Bulletin of the National Museum of Ethnology (ISSN:0385180X)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.1, no.2, pp.305-333, 1976-07-20

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Rinzo Mamiya, a Japanese explorer, reached the Siberiancontinent via Sakhalin island in 1809. He is famous for his rediscoveryof the Tatar strait. He also gained immortal fame forhis ethnographic survey of the Gilyak living on the lower Amur,and of the native population of Sakhalin. He described theabove-mentioned peoples in Totatsu Kiko (Travels among the EastTatar), and Hokui Bunkai Yowa (The Story of the Northern Tribes)written in 1910. These works were translated into German andincluded in Nippon, Ph. Franz von Siebold's book, written in 1832.Mamiya's ethnographic descriptions have contributed to theacademical world. Leopold von Schrenck, who did research onthe lower Amur region from 1854 to 1856, and published DieVolker des Amur-Landes, consulted Mamiya's work. Later, at thebeginning of the twentieth century, Shternberg carried out hisfield trip among the Gilyak of the lower Amur region, and contributedmuch to the study of the Gilyak society and religion. Hetoo appreciated Rinzo Mamiya's work.Under the present soviet regime, Chuner Taksami, a Gilyakscholar, and Anna Smolyak, a scholar from Mosco,w, are carryingout a systemetic study of the Gilyak people.I have tried to pursue the ethnographic value of Mamiya'swork and studied it critically referring to work done by laterscholars. This is a first attempt in Japan. There is no doubtthat Mamiya's work has immortal classical value in the field of theethnographic study of the lower Amur people and the nativepeople of Sakhalin island.