Subject	International trade
	Agriculture
	Economic conditions
	Government
	Mining camps
	Australia–Discovery and exploration
	Japan–History–19th century
Category	1. Settlement
Author	浅見 忠雄 (Asami Tadao)
Keywords	Travel
	Trade
Current Holder	National Library of Australia
Period Of Reference	1881/1881
Date	1881-01-01
Item Number	OJN 3950 3664
Access Rights	Request at location
Rights	Out of Copyright
Country Of Origin	Japan
Language	Japanese
Description From Source	tables ; 22 cm. Title translated into English: A record of my second trip to Australia. This is a small (15 pages) handwritten outline of the conditions in Australia in the late 19th century. It outlines the land, government, economy, mining and agriculture sectors, education, trade and domestic consumption. Though the book itself has no information on when and where it was published, internal evidence would indicate that it was written in 1881. This would make this account of Australia the earliest in the collection. It is possible that Asami accompanied one of the early delegations that attended the International expositions in Sydney or Melbourne in 1879 and 1880 respectively. The style is objective and factual and ends with the statement that Japanese businesses could ignore Australia as a market for Japanese manufactured goods.
Physical Format	Manuscripts