Pirates and Samurai: escaped convicts in Japan
About the seminar
In 1830, at the peak of Japan’s isolationism and 23 years before Commodore Perry forced the Tokugawa Shogunate to trade with the United States. Escaped convicts from Van Diemen’s Land arrived off the coast of Shikoku in the piratically seized Cyprus brig. For twelve days the convict pirates drifted along the coast interacting with local samurai as they sought safe harbour. In this seminar journalist Timothy Stone will discuss the recently-discovered samurai records of first contact between Australia and Japan.
If you have any questions about the event please email Hiroko Wood at hiroko.woods@unimelb.edu.au.
This event is part of the Inagaki Seminar series. The seminar features current topics on Japan within the areas of society, politics, language, and culture, as well as on the Australia-Japan relationship.
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This is a hybrid event. To join the lecture online, please see the below details and book an 'online' ticket.
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About the speaker
Timothy Stone CF
Timothy Stone is an award-winning producer, writer and art journalist with extensive experience working across broadcast, digital and print mediums. In 2023 Timothy Stone was awarded a Churchill Fellowship to retrace the journey taken by escaped convicts that sailed from Tasmania across the Pacific to Japan before their miraculous return to England in 1830.
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