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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
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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
From Europe to Japan • Western Philosophy • Medicine • Natural resources
Unanswered Questions • How the “Middling Sorts” knew about Japanese Products? • How “Orientalism” informed images of Japan in the popular imagination?