Heretic - Itanshagou

...There have been many tragedies of shipwrecks in both the East and the West since ancient times. Drifting can be divided into those for academic purposes and those due to accidents at sea. The former is well-known in 1947 when T. Heyerdahl attempted to cross the Pacific Ocean in a raft he named "Kon-Tiki" to prove his anthropological theory ("The Kon-Tiki Expedition"). In 1952, Alain Bombard succeeded in drifting alone across the Atlantic Ocean in a rubber boat he named "The Heretic" by eating only fish and plankton, sating his thirst with seawater and rainwater ("Experimental Drifting"). In Japan, after several drifting experiments, in 1975, Makoto Saito drifted from Saipan Island to Okinawa in the "Henokappa II" ("Drifting Experiments"). In Japan, which is surrounded by the sea on all sides, the latter type of drifting at sea is common, and there have been many examples of this since the drifting of the Japanese envoys to the Tang Dynasty in the 7th century, and they occurred in large numbers in the early modern period. …

*Some of the terminology that refers to the "Heretic" is listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

…昔から難船漂流の悲劇は洋の東西を問わずきわめて多い。漂流には学術上の目的で行ったものと，海難事故によるものがあり，前者では1947年T.ヘイエルダールが人類学上の自説を立証するため，〈コン･ティキ号〉と名づけたいかだで太平洋横断を決行した例(《コン･ティキ号探検記》)，52年アラン･ボンバールが海の魚とプランクトンだけを食べ，海水と雨水で渇きをしのぎ，単身〈異端者号〉と名づけたゴムボートで大西洋横断漂流に成功した例(《実験漂流記》)，日本では数次の漂流実験後，75年斎藤実が〈ヘノカッパII世号〉でサイパン島から沖縄に向かって漂流実験した例(〈漂流実験〉)などが著名である。　四面環海の日本では後者の海難漂流が多く，古くは7世紀の遣唐使船の漂流以来，その例が多く，とくに近世には大量に発生した。…

※「異端者号」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。

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