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Account of a secret trip to the interior of Korea
Transactions of the Asiatic Society of Japan • 9 • Published In 1883 • Pages: 141-147
By: Kenny, W. J..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
Abiru Yusaku, the editor of the Transactions of the Asiatic Society of Japan, discovered in his trunk the manuscript written by a certain Tsushima man concerning a trip he had taken in disguise to Tai-ku. The manuscript is translated by W.J. Kenny. In itself, it is not too revealing as far as data on Korean culture is concerned. But the use of disguise (apparently the French missionaries donned Korean mourning garb in order to effect peaceful entry into Korea) in order to make a tour of observation in a particular country is quite suggestive. The traveler's tour took about three weeks and his observations are limited to the type the average tourist might make. The emphasis is upon diet, personal hygiene, travel accomodations, and styles of life of the different social strata in Korea.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Culture summary
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Korea
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 1998
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- Asia
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- East Asia
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- article
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Traveler
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 3: Good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- ER ; Bertha P. Emerson ; 1951
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1875
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- not specified
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Tai-ku, Korea
- NotesAdditional notes
- translated by W.J. Kenny
- This document consists of excerpts
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Koreans