Book/Printed Material The narrative of a Japanese; what he has seen and the people he has met in the course of the last forty years.


Enlarge
[ Volume 1 ]
Transcript: PDF  |  XML

More Resources

[ Volume 2 ]
Transcript: PDF  |  XML

About this Item

Title
The narrative of a Japanese; what he has seen and the people he has met in the course of the last forty years.
Summary
Joseph Heco (1837-1897), a native of the province of Sanyodo, went to sea in 1850. When his ship was dismasted, he and other members of the crew were rescued by an American ship which took Heco to California, and the young Japanese did not return to his native land until 1859. The narrative of a Japanese, vol. 1 (1895) contains Heco's reminiscences, based on diaries that he began to keep as soon as he had mastered English. In the first volume, he describes his boyhood in Japan and the voyage that brought him to America; a trip to Hong Kong; and a return voyage to San Francisco, where a local businessman sponsors Heco's education and travels to New York and Baltimore. This volume concludes with Heco's return to Japan in 1859 and work as interpreter for the U.S. consulate and a second trip to America, 1861-1862. Vol. 2 (1895) contains Heco's reminiscences of his adventures, picking up the story shortly after Heco's return to Japan after his second journey to America in 1862. His later experiences in Japan include an eyewitness account of key events in the Revolution of 1868.
Contributor Names
Heco, Joseph, 1837-1897.
Created / Published
[Tokyo, Maruzen, 1895]
Subject Headings
-  Ethnic groups--California
-  California--Description and travel
Notes
-  Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.
Medium
2 v. illus. 23 cm.
Call Number/Physical Location
CT1838.H4 A3
Digital Id
http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.gdc/calbk.112
http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.gdc/calbk.113
Library of Congress Control Number
52053301
Rights Advisory
No known restrictions on publication.
Online Format
image
pdf
online text
LCCN Permalink
https://lccn.loc.gov/52053301
Additional Metadata Formats
MARCXML Record
MODS Record
Dublin Core Record

Rights & Access

"California as I Saw It:" First-Person Narratives of California's Early Years, 1849-1900.

General Notice and Restriction Statement: The Library of Congress is providing access to these materials for educational and research purposes. The written permission of the copyright owners and/or other rights holders (such as publicity and/or privacy rights) is required for distribution, reproduction, or other use of protected items beyond that allowed by fair use or other statutory exemptions. Responsibility for making an independent legal assessment of an item and securing necessary permissions ultimately rests with persons desiring to use the item.

While the Library is not aware of any U.S. copyright or any other restrictions in this collection, some content may be protected by U.S. Copyright Law (Title 17, U.S.C.), and/or the copyright or neighboring-rights laws of other nations. Additionally, the reproduction of some materials may be restricted by privacy and/or publicity rights.

Credit Line: Library of Congress, [appropriate source division as described in the bibliographic record]. For example: Library of Congress, General Collections; or, Library of Congress, Rare Book and Special Collections Division.

Cite This Item

Citations are generated automatically from bibliographic data as a convenience, and may not be complete or accurate.

Chicago citation style:

Heco, Joseph. The narrative of a Japanese; what he has seen and the people he has met in the course of the last forty years. [Tokyo, Maruzen, 1895] Pdf. https://www.loc.gov/item/52053301/.

APA citation style:

Heco, J. (1895) The narrative of a Japanese; what he has seen and the people he has met in the course of the last forty years. [Tokyo, Maruzen] [Pdf] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/52053301/.

MLA citation style:

Heco, Joseph. The narrative of a Japanese; what he has seen and the people he has met in the course of the last forty years. [Tokyo, Maruzen, 1895] Pdf. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/52053301/>.

More Books/Printed Material like this

  • Book/Printed Material
    The Silverado squatters, Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) traveled to California in 1879 in pursuit of Fanny Van de Grift Osbourne, the Oakland woman with whom he had fallen in love in France. The two were...
    • Contributor: Stevenson, Robert Louis
    • Date: 1888
  • Book/Printed Material
    Between the gates. Benjamin Franklin Taylor (1819-1887) won renown as a war correspondent for Chicago newspapers during the Civil War. In peacetime he became a freelance writer best known as a poet. Between the gates...
    • Contributor: Taylor, Benjamin F. (Benjamin Franklin)
    • Date: 1878
  • Book/Printed Material
    California and the West, 1881, and later ... Lloyd Briggs (1863-1941) of Boston interrupted his studies at Harvard Medical School to travel to Hawaii for his health. He first visited California on his return from Honolulu in 1881, and his...
    • Contributor: Briggs, L. Vernon (Lloyd Vernon)
    • Date: 1931
  • Book/Printed Material
    Old Californian days James Steele visited California in the 1880s. Old Californian days (1889) is the book Steele based on that trip. He provides a sketch of the history of California before the Gold Rush...
    • Contributor: Steele, James - Steele, James W. (James William)
    • Date: 1889
  • Book/Printed Material
    Diary of a physician in California; being the results of actual experience, including notes of the ... Dr. James L. Tyson sailed from Baltimore for California in January 1849, crossing the Isthmus and sailing on to San Francisco. Diary of a physician in California (1850) recounts his 1849 tour...
    • Contributor: Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Ya Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Tyson, James L. (James Lawrence)
    • Date: 1850