Daikokuya Kōdayū

The crew managed to travel to the Russian mainland and Catherine the Great allowed them to go back to Japan.

Daikokuya Kōdayū was born in Wakamatsu, Ise Province (now Suzuka, Mie, Japan).

Just after the man died, they found and landed on the island Amchitka where Russians and Aleut people lived.

Kōdayū did not hide what he thought and his Russian had a strong accent and he spoke very fast so sometimes Lesseps could not understand.

Kōdayū then left for Saint Petersburg in order to accompany Kirill to ask to be returned home in 1791.

[6] The story is told in a movie Dreams of Russia directed by Junya Sato (released in 1992) based on a book of the same name written by Yasushi Inoue (published in 1968).