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The Dutch Trade in Japan

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

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The Dutch Trade in Japan

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  1. The Dutch Trade in Japan

  2. First European Contacts • Portuguese • 1543 • Introduced firearms • 1549- Missionaries settle

  3. 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

  4. 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

  5. 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

  6. From Japan to Europe • Porcelain

  7. Lacquer work

  8. The Japanese in the European World View

  9. From Europe to Japan • Western Philosophy • Medicine • Natural resources

  10. In fiction:

  11. Unanswered Questions • How the “Middling Sorts” knew about Japanese Products? • How “Orientalism” informed images of Japan in the popular imagination?

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