1888 (1859 story) Kosome Adachi Ginkō captures Kosome, who drifted on a storm-crippled ship to Hawaii in 1859, then went on to the United States, where she studied and became a teacher. Transcription and translationIn the following transcription, I have reproduced the text as well as I can using only forms of kanji and kana available in JIS or Unicode. Most of the kanji in the text have furigana readings, but I have omitted these readings in the transcription. I have, however, shown the readings when parenthetically glossing some of the words of interest in the translation. Note that, graphically, (1) the text includes both fuller and abbreviated forms of some of the kanji, (2) there is no punctuation, (3) voicing is somewhat inconsistently marked, and (4) in one line the scribe has squeezed in one more graph than in the other lines. The translation is structural.
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Acquisition
I made the above transcription on 30 October 2004 from a scan of a copy offered for sale by Petrie Rogers Gallery in Tuscon, Arizona. The following month I shared a somewhat simpler (less structural) version of the translation with one of the proprietors, who posted it on her website. Four years later I bought the print from the same dealer, then a year after that I picked up another copy -- somewhat more faded and wrinkled, but untrimmed -- in Japan.
Print information
Size oban
Drawn by Shōsai Ginkō [Adachi Ginkō] [Adachi Heishichi]
Written by [unsigned]
Carved by [unsigned]
Printed Meiji 21-9-20 (20 September 1888)
Published same year (month and day blank)
Printed and published by Sasaki Toyokichi