Treaty of Shimoda
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The Treaty of Shimoda of February 7, 1855, was the first treaty between the Russian Empire, and the Empire of Japan, then under the administration of the Tokugawa shogunate. Following shortly after th
Japanese copy of the Treaty of Shimoda, February 7, 1855
The Russian frigate Pallada that carried Vice-Admiral Yevfimy Putyatin to Japan.
Putyatin in Nagasaki, Japanese painting 1853.
The sinking of Diana, Illustrated London News 1856.
Iturup
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Iturup, known in Japan as Etorofu, is the largest of the Kuril Islands separating the Sea of Okhotsk from the North Pacific Ocean. It is the largest and northernmost of the southern Kurils, ownership
Treaty of Shimoda
…Shimoda. Putiatin was met in Shimoda by Kawaji and Tsutsui, and negotiations began on December 22, 1854, with Putiatin offering to cede the island of Etorofu to Japan in exchange for trade rights, whereas the Japanese countered that since Kamchatka belonged to Japan, it followed that all of the Kuril Islands…
"Staten Eylant" between Hokkaido ("Eso") and the imaginary continent of "Companies Land" on Jan Janssonius's 1654 New and Accurate Description of Japan, the Land of Eso, and Adjacent Islands
Volcanoes of Iturup
Kurilsk, 1981
Iturup, 1981