mamiya

Updated: May 5, 2025

But, in 1806, Mamiya Rinzo, a Japanese traveller, voyaged up and down the Amur, and, crossing to Saghalien, discovered that a narrow strait separated it from the continent. There still exists in Europe a theory that Saghalien's insular character was discovered first by a Russian, Captain Nevelskoy, in 1849, but in Japan the fact had already been known.

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