Benyowsky's Memoirs and Travels : Their Impact on 18^<th>-century Europe and Japan

奥古斯特·F·冯·科策布(1761-1819)创作的《本约斯基伯爵》(1795)是所谓土耳其歌剧的变体，以开明的英雄为主角。令人惊讶的是，到了20世纪中期，他的戏剧已经流传到了许多文学作品中。这就是本约斯基的回忆录和游记(1791)对德国的影响。在1790年出版他的回忆录的英格兰，比德文版早一年，旅行杂志的接待环境已经创造出来了。考虑到他参与了波兰和堪察加的反俄起义，本约斯基对俄罗斯对德川幕府南下政策的警告，肯定不仅仅是迄今为止日本人普遍认为的胡言乱语。

Count Benyowsky (1795)written by August F. F. von Kotzebue (1761-1819)is a variant of what is called Turkish Operas featuring enlightened heroes. Surprisingly enough, his play had been handed down to many literary works by the mid-20th century. That is where the influence of Benyowsky's Memoirs and Travels (1791)can be found in Germany. In England where his Memoirs were published in 1790, a year prior to the German version, the milieu of the reception of travel journals had been already created. Given his participation in the insurrections against the Russians in Poland and Kamchatka, Benyowsky's warnings of Russia's southward policy to the Tokugawa shogunate is surely more than just ravings that have been generally regarded among the Japanese to date.