The Namban trade : merchants and missionaries in 16th and 17th century Japan /  by Mihoko Oka.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The Portuguese in the East Asian seas in the 16th century -- The structure and content of Namban trade -- The Namban trade and Nagasaki merchants: structure of investment and capital injection -- Macao and the Namban trade: the "maritime loan" debt problem -- Religion and power in Macao -- The Jesuits and trade after the prohibition of Christianity in Japan -- Nagasaki during the Kan'ei period: the affair of Paulo dos Santos -- Epilogue: the final phase of the Namban trade.

"This book attempts to depict certain aspects of the Portuguese trade in East Asia in the 16th and 17th centuries by analyzing the activities of the merchants and Christian missionaries involved. It also discusses the response of the Japanese regime in handling the systemic changes that took place in the Asian seas. Consequently, it explains how Jesuit missionaries forged close ties with local merchants from the start of their activities in East Asian waters, and there is no doubt that the propagation of Christianity in Japan was a result of their cooperation. The author of this book attempted to combine the essence of previous studies by Japanese and western scholars and added several new findings from analyses of original Japanese and European language documents"-- Provided by publisher.

Keywords: Namban 南蛮 (in this case and epoch referring primarily to Portuguese or other Europeans arriving in Japan from the south)

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War and Trade in Maritime East Asia / edited by Mihoko Oka.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction -- 2. The Meaning of the East Asian Maritime History: From a Japanese Perspective -- 3. The Study of Maritime Asian History in Japanese Schools -- Part I. Picturing Actors on the Sea -- 4. Japanese Daimyōs as Sea Lords in the 15th and 16th Centuries: Their Involvement in the Japan-Ming Trade -- 5. The Origin of the Namban Trade: The Sea of Private Traders -- 6. Sino-Portuguese Negotiation and Collaboration: The Ming Naval Revolt of 1564 -- 7. Edo Period Maps of the Old World: An Analysis on Their Textual Information of Ports and Trade -- Part II. The Japanese Invasion of Korea -- 8. Another Altan Khan in Maritime Asia?: Controversies on the Revival of Sino-Japanese Tributary Trade During the Japanese Invasion of Korea -- 9. Bloody Headcount: A Dispute over Reward and the Mutiny of the Ming Southern Soldiers in the First Stage of the Korea War (1592-1595) -- 10. The Diffusion of Japanese Firearms in the Ming Dynasty at the End of the 16th Century: From the Japanese Invasion of Korea to Yang Yinglong's Revolt in Bozhou -- 11. Repatriation of Korean Captives from Japan after Toyotomi's Invasion.

This book is divided into two parts. One is the state of trade in East Asia before and after the collapse of the tributary system to the Ming Dynasty, and the other is the war of aggression in which Toyotomi Hideyoshi of Japan sent a large number of troops to the Korean Peninsula with a view of conquering China at the end of the sixteenth century. With regard to East Asia in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, the contributors in this book share a problem awareness in terms of using trade and war as subjects to clarify multi-ethnic, borderless, and multi-layered situations. Although there are many chapters related to Japan, this book tries to grasp the interaction between Japan as a region of East Asia and neighboring countries from a global perspective, not the one singular national history. Mihoko Oka is an associate professor at the School of Interdisciplinary Information Studies and Historiographical Institute, University of Tokyo.

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