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The Dutch Trade in Japan
First European Contacts
• Portuguese–1543 – Introduced
firearms–1549- Missionaries
settle
Japanese “Seclusion”
• Tokugawa Shogunate 1603– Increasing restrictions on Catholic Missionaries– Persecution of Christianized Japanese
• Sakoku Edict of 1635– Japanese forbidden to leave– Catholicism forbidden– European Trade limited
Dutch Trade
• 1600- Liefde, Will Adams• Attractive to Japanese – Opposed to Spanish and Portuguese– Protestant- helped suppress a revolt by Christian
Samurai – Willing to accept Japanese restrictions
Trade post on Dejima
• Dutch limited to Isle of Dejima (outside Nagasaki) 1641
• Subject to intense inspection
• Annual visit to Edo• VOC and personal trade
From Japan to Europe
• Porcelain
Lacquer work
The Japanese in the European World View
From Europe to Japan
• Western Philosophy• Medicine• Natural resources
In fiction:
Unanswered Questions
• How the “Middling Sorts” knew about Japanese Products?
• How “Orientalism” informed images of Japan in the popular imagination?