An Accidental World Tour
A Japanese sailing ship travelling from Nagoya to Tokyo in 1832 was blown off course. Two years later the missing ship appeared in the area of today’s Washington state on the west coast of North America. It had not mast and no rudder.
Of 14 crew members only 3 had survived the accidental ocean crossing of 5,000 miles. Their names were Iwakichi, Kyukichi, and Otokichi. They were first discovered by Makah, who briefly imprisoned them before they were sent to For Vancouver in the British colony of Canada. They were then sent on to London and eventually China, where the “three kichis” became a pawn in international relations with Japan. Part of the reason they could not be sent straight home was that at the time, Japan had been a “closed” country for 200 years, with extremely limited interactions with any outsiders.
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