Dembei (Japanese: 伝兵衛, romanized: Dembei; IPA: [dẽ̞mbe̞ː]; Dembei, Russian: Дэмбэй, romanized: Dembey; IPA: [dɨmˈbɛj]) was a Japanese castaway who, through Vladimir Atlasov, provided Russia with some of its first knowledge of Japan. == Biography == He was a merchant clerk accompanying a fleet of "thirty transports laden with goods for Edo," which had been caught in a storm; they found their way to Kamchatka and were found by Atlasov in 1701 or 1702.
Dembei (Japanese: 伝兵衛, romanized: Dembei; IPA: [dẽ̞mbe̞ː]; Dembei, Russian: Дэмбэй, romanized: Dembey; IPA: [dɨmˈbɛj]) was a Japanese castaway who, through Vladimir Atlasov, provided Russia with some of its first knowledge of Japan. == Biography == He was a merchant clerk accompanying a fleet of "thirty transports laden with goods for Edo," which had been caught in a storm; they found their way to Kamchatka and were found by Atlasov in 1701 or 1702.
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