Born at Shiroko in Ise (Suzuka, Mie).
Captaining the Shinshō Maru to Edo, he was caught in a storm and began a long drift.
He drifted ashore on Amchitka in the Aleutians; many of his crew lost their lives to cold and illness.
In Irkutsk, Siberia, the scholar Kirill Laxman came to his aid.
In the Russian capital St Petersburg he met Empress Catherine II and was granted leave to go home.
He returned to Nemuro in Hokkaido aboard the ship of the Russian envoy Adam Laxman.
In Edo he was questioned before the shogun Ienari; his account was compiled by Katsuragawa Hoshū as Hokusa Bunryaku.
Living in Edo, he was allowed a brief visit home to Ise.
He died in Edo.
Hanawa HokiichiShiba KokanTsutaya JūzaburōUesugi YōzanKitagawa UtamaroMogami TokunaiŌtsuki GentakuRyōkan
People of the Edo period ・ People by period
Based on facts found in textbooks and biographies. Uncertain points are marked as such.