1827
John Manjiro was born as a son of the fishermen of the countries of Tosa.
1841
He was cast ashore in drifting, the solitary island during fishing in Ashizuri Cape for ten days and he ate a little distilled water and seaweed, seabird and sustained myself for 143 days.
1842
He was saved in whaler John Howe Landes, U.S.A. and was under the protection of Captain Whitfield.
He parted from the drifting companion in Honolulu, and Manjiro set sail for the Pacific as a whaler as Japanese.
At this time, it is with a nickname derived from the John Mung attached from the Americans to ship name.
1846
He returned to port in Massachusetts that was the hometown of the captain, Fairhaven.
In Oxford school (the beginner's class), Bartlett technical school (the upper grade),
He received education such as English, mathematics, surveying, a voyage, the shipbuilding.
1849
He went on board as a mate of American first-class whaler Franklin and went around Cape of Good Hope from the Atlantic, and whaling in the Atlantic sailed the Indian Ocean more.
He dropped in at Honolulu and met a friend again.
1848
He became a first officer, a vice-captain.
1850
He purchased adventure and did the available steamer which returned to the mother country in three people with two friends.
1851
He landed on the main Okinawa island.
1852
By life of Yamanouchi Toyoshige which was Tosa feudal lord, He received the investigation for 70 days from Toyo Yoshida.
A reencounter with mother came true after an interval of 11 years ten months. (five days)
He was appointed as the status of samurai of the Tosa feudal clan and became the professor of the educational institution for han children under Kochi-jo Castle.
Shoujirou Goto, Yatarou Iwasaki caught the direct instruction then, too.
1853
The summons from the member of the Shogun's Council of Elders top reaches Manjirou of the Tosa feudal clan and is ordered a secretary of Edo Tarouzaemon and becomes Shogunate vassal.
He gave "Nakahama Manjirou" as a family name with the place name of the birth hometown then.
1855
A writing brush wrote a first Japanese navigation book, a chronological table (United States of America navigation book) and edited an English conversation book successively.
He dealt with the building of the sailing boat of the Western model in Izu.
He became a professor of the teaching place of a warship.
He left for a professor of the art of whaling to Hakodate.
1860
As a member of Mission group, He got on board Kanrinmaru.
Yukichi Fukuzawa which became Mayor of Keio University later goes together, and the episode that purchased an English dictionary of Webster together is famous.
1861
He joined Mizuno Chikugonokami Tadanori of the Magistrate of Foreign Affairs and made an investigation and the drawings of Ogasawara Islands (Chichijima, Hahajima).
1866
He became the professor of the Satsuma feudal clan and taught a voyage, shipbuilding, surveying, English.
By a request of Yodo Yamauchi which was a feudal lord of Tosa, He contributed to the establishment of Shoujirou Goto and Kaisei-kan which were an educational institution for han children.
1869
In response to a command of the Meiji government, He became the associate professor of the Kaisei school (Tokyo University).
Become a professor later; and of the highest educational institution taught at a school.
1870
He went on a business trip to Europe as a member of the inspection of Franco-Prussian War.
He returned from London, and light cerebral hemorrhage was caused soon and fell down, but recovered.
1898
He spent quiet later years as a school teacher.
He finished a life at 71 years old.
★1 / 75 kanrin-Maru with a sail★
