十九世纪末、廿世纪初日本人的进出甘肃

Japanese entering and eparting Gansu in the end of 19th century to the beginning of the 20th century

19世纪末20世纪初,打着各种旗号的外国探险队、间谍纷至沓来,其中日本人不在少数。除国人熟知的大谷探险队的橘瑞超、吉川小一郎外,在这之前还有数拨。最早来甘肃的是1888年的浦敬一和藤岛武彦等人,继之路过甘肃的主要还有大谷探险队的渡边哲信和堀贤雄,以及藤本强、林出贤次郎、波多野养作等人次。他们都或多或少地留下了一些关于当时甘肃的种种记载,成为日本人最早的反映甘肃情况的史料。

Between the late of 19th century to the beginning of 20th, many expeditions and spies came to Gansu under cover of various reasons. Many of them were Japanese. Before Zuicho Tachibana and Shoichiro Yoshikawa, who were very familiar to us, there are a few more Japanese had been to Gansu. The earliest Japanese had been to Gansu in 1888 were Urakeiichi and Fujishimatakehiko, then there were Fujimoto, Hayashidekenjiro, Hatanoyosaku. All of them left more or less records, which were the earliest records about Gansu made by Japanese.