The Dutch Trade in Japan
First European Contacts Portuguese – 1543 – Introduced firearms – 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 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?