2015年5月6日 星期三

山內資料館宣布:是約翰萬次郎攝製吉田東洋的照片......

A few weeks ago the Yomiuri News on-line reported the following:

ジョン万次郎:吉田東洋の写真を撮影…山内家資料館発表

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 高知市の土佐山内家宝物資料館は13日、幕末に尊王攘夷(じょうい)派に暗殺された土佐藩参政、吉田東洋の写真を撮影したのは、日本人で初めて米国へ渡ったジョン万次郎だったと発表した。
 ガラス板を使った米国式の湿板写真で縦10.9センチ、横8.2センチ。東洋の日記から暗殺前年の1861年1月29日に江戸で撮影され、昨秋、東洋の子孫から同館に寄贈された。
 東京大史料編纂(へんさん)所などの調査で、この技法を当時の江戸で使えたのは、同じ土佐人の万次郎だけと判明。歴史的一枚に、研究者は「写真の夜明けぜよ」。【岩間理紀】
(試譯文)
On the 13th (March) for the first time the Tosa Yamauchi Family Treasure and Archives in Kochi city announced that it was John Manjiro, the first Japanese to migrate to the USA, that took the picture Yoshida Toyo who was a Tosa feudal clan politic participant assassinated during the late Bakufu period by the political party that advocated reverence for the Emperor and expulsion of foreigners.

  It was an American system wet plate photo, using a glass plate measuring 10.9 centimeters in length and 8.2 centimeters in width. Based on the diary of Toyo, the picture was taken in Edo on 29th January 1861, before the assassination. It was donated to the said Archives by Toyo’s descendants last autumn.

  According to an investigation by the University of Tokyo Historiography Institute, in those days in Edo the one who could use this technique was Manjiro who was some one from the same Tosa. As a piece of history, the researchers said that it "sheds light on the unknown of a picture".


My understanding is that in 1861 photography was a very new invention, and it would cost a lot of money to take one photo.

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