通訳・外交官としての宣教師メルメ・カション ―日伊条約の交渉を事例に

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  • French missionary Mermet-Cachon as an interpreter and diplomat ―Through his collaboration to the Japanese-Italian treaty negotiations

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The so-called «Ansei Five-Power Treaties» signed in 1858 made possible for US, Russian, Dutch, English and French nationals to live in the open ports of Japan. As a consequence, missionaries also began to arrive there, and among them were the two first French missionaries to live in Mainland Japan, father Girard in Edo and Kanagawa （arrived 6 Sept. 1859） and father Mermet in Hakodate （arrived 25 Nov. 1859）. Born in Sept. 1828, Mermet entered the seminary of the Paris Foreign Missions in 1852, and after having been ordained, he left for Japan on 25 Aug. 1854. From February 1855, he stayed in the Ryûkyû Islands in order to learn Japanese, but he had to go back to Hong-Kong in October 1856. Nevertheless, when he arrived in Hakodate, Mermet, who had also taken part as Baron Gros’ interpreter in the negotiations for the first Japanese-French treaty in October 1858, already had a deep knowledge of Japan and of the Japanese language. He then stayed in Hakodate until the summer of 1863, but as the propagation of Christianity was still forbidden in Japan from the spring of 1864, he had to engage into many other activities. After having returned to France for a short time, Mermet was engaged as interpreter by Roches, the second French Minister in Japan from the spring 1864. During the two years and a half that he served at the French legation, he again took part in a wide range of activities. The one that we wish to talk about in this article is the role that Mermet played during the negotiations for the first Italian-Japanese treaty, which took place between july and september 1866.

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