H-Japan(E): Research Query: Yamada Nagamasa - mariner

Philip C. Brown (pbrown@postbox.acs.ohio-state.edu)
Sun, 10 Mar 1996 11:33:42 -0500

H-JAPAN
March 10, 1996

Request for information:

From: Paul Weaver
pweaver@echidna.cowan.edu.au

I have been looking for information on the Japanese mariner Yamada Nagamasa
who sailed in the waters north of Australia in about the sixteenth century
AD. I understand he did some pearling in Torres Strait.

Any information or suggestions of English language references would be
appreciated.

Thankyou.

Paul Weaver
PhD student
Edith Cowan University
Western Australia.
pweaver@echidna.cowan.edu.au

Postal address:
Paul Weaver
23 Waddell Road
Palmyra
Western Australia. 6157.

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