kunajiri

Updated: August 29, 2026

For a period of five years after these events the Russians made no further attempt to establish relations with Japan, and their next essay, namely, the despatch of a warship the Diana to survey the Yezo coasts, was unceremoniously interrupted by the Japanese. Another vessel flying the Russian flag visited Kunajiri, in 1814.

F. (Frank) Brinkley - A History of the Japanese People : From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era