Native American in Japan...

[5fish]

Here a story about an Native American in Japan he made a stir... He met the native people of Japan the Ainu...

Ranald MacDonald - Wikipedia

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Ranald MacDonald (February 3, 1824 – August 24, 1894) was the first native English-speaker to teach the English language in Japan, including educating Einosuke Moriyama, one of the chief interpreters to handle the negotiations between Commodore Perry and the Tokugawa Shogunate.

Here is this... more details while in Japan.... click the link....

http://www.jai2.com/RM.htm

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As it turned out, his "rescuers" were not Japanese, but Japan's aboriginal race of Ainu, and they took him to the village of Nozuka, in a rocky shored-area of Rishiri. They treated him kindly, but he was eventually reported to the samurai stationed at Soya, near what is today the modern city of Wakanai, at the northern tip of Hokkaido. Eventually he was shipped to Soya, interrogated, examined, and incarcerated. From there he was transported by junk along the coast to Matsumae, in southern Hokkaido, and then south all the way to Nagasaki.

 

[5fish]

The Canadians claim him as theirs's. A photo of him...

How Ranald MacDonald ignited English studies in Japan - The Canadian

In 1848, Shogun Ieyoshi, the 12th supreme warlord in the Tokugawa dynasty, ruled Japan. The people were saddled with harsh austerity laws and Japan was still a deeply feudal state, closed to the world. U.S. Commodore Matthew Perry’s fleet wouldn’t arrive to demand port and trade concessions for...

thecanadian.cccj.or.jp

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“Ranald could have claimed to be a U.S. citizen, a Canadian, or a British citizen,” says Frederik L. Schodt, author of Native American in the Land of the Shogun: Ranald MacDonald and the Opening of Japan.

“I believe he told his interrogators in Japan that he was from Oregon which, in his parlance, meant everything from the Columbia River north to British Columbia, and included the state of Washington and part of Idaho, I suspect. To say that he was a Canadian is somewhat true, but a bit disingenuous, because of course when he was born modern Canada did not exist and when it did first come into being it was British.”

Whatever his nationality, however, by being the first native English teacher of Japanese interpreters, MacDonald planted a seed of internationalization in Japan that grew into a core pillar of its modernization

 

[5fish]

There was a Prussians Samurais in 19th Century... @rittmeister , @Wehrkraftzersetzer

Edward and Henry Schnell - Wikipedia

en.m.wikipedia.org

This implies Henry was a true Samurai be side he was given land and retainers...

List of foreign-born samurai in Japan - Wikipedia

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[5fish]

Here their story gets better...

 

[rittmeister]

There was a Prussians Samurais in 19th Century... @rittmeister , @Wehrkraftzersetzer

Edward and Henry Schnell - Wikipedia

en.m.wikipedia.org

This implies Henry was a true Samurai be side he was given land and retainers...

List of foreign-born samurai in Japan - Wikipedia

en.m.wikipedia.org

eduard and heinrich, damnit

... and i never heard of them - i'm buying my bread at the bäckerei schnell

 

[5fish]

bäckerei schnell

at the bakery quickly...

 

[rittmeister]

at the bakery quickly...

i thought they were advertising a fast bakery (which by definition would produce bad bread) but then someone told me it's the master baker's name and i tried it

 

[5fish]

Warm fresh bread is the best... Did you look look those two Prussian Samurais in German reference material? The video has them both vanishing from history but Wiki gives them death dates in the 20th century, trying to square this.

 

[rittmeister]

Warm fresh bread is the best... Did you look look those two Prussian Samurais in German reference material? The video has them both vanishing from history but Wiki gives them death dates in the 20th century, trying to square this.

hä?

it should be obvious, shouldn't it?