Ryota Nishino The University of the South Pacific nishino_r@usp.ac.fj

1. Self-promotion of a maverick travel-writer: Suzuki Tsunenori’s southern Pacific travelogue (1892) Ryota Nishino The University of the South Pacific nishino_r@usp.ac.fj

2. 鈴木経勲 (1853-1938) • Advocate of Japanese advance to the South Seas in late 19C. • Travel-writer (amongst other pursuits). 南洋探検実記 (1892) • Reputation deteriorated from an ethnographer to a bluffer.

4. Travel-writing scholarship • ‘Pseudos’ and multiple functions (Holland and Huggan, Youngs, Thompson). • Self-presentation <> representing the other.

5. Self-presentation as … • A reporter • Meeting Robert Wilcox in Hawai’i • A cultural interlocutor • Catholicism; Linguistic abilities • A grass-roots ambassador • School visit to promote Japan’s industrial advance. • Striking rapport with ‘natives’ and ‘coolies’ in Fiji.

6. A kava ceremony,Pagopago, Samoa

7. Loreto school, near Levuka

8. ‘Kawasu’