The Company and the Shogun : the Dutch encounter with Tokugawa Japan / Adam Clulow.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 301-324) and index.

Introduction: Taming the Dutch -- 1: Diplomacy. Royal Letters from the Republic ; The Lord of Batavia ; The Shogun's loyal vassals -- 2: Violence. The violent sea ; Power and petition -- 3: Sovereignty. Planting the flag in Asia ; Giving up the Governor -- Conclusion: The Dutch experience in Japan.

"The Dutch East India Company was a hybrid organization combining the characteristics of both corporation and state that attempted to thrust itself aggressively into an Asian political order in which it possessed no obvious place and was transformed in the process. This study focuses on the company's clashes with Tokugawa Japan over diplomacy, violence, and sovereignty. In each encounter the Dutch were forced to retreat, compelled to abandon their claims to sovereign powers, and to refashion themselves again and again -- from subjects of a fictive king to loyal vassals of the shogun, from aggressive pirates to meek merchants, and from insistent defenders of colonial sovereignty to legal subjects of the Tokugawa state. Within the confines of these conflicts, the terms of the relationship between the company and the shogun first took shape and were subsequently set into what would become their permanent form. The first book to treat the Dutch East India Company in Japan as something more than just a commercial organization, The Company and the Shogun presents new perspective on one of the most important, long-lasting relationships to develop between an Asian state and a European overseas enterprise."-- From publisher's description.

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The Deshima diaries 1641-1660 : the dagregisters kept by the chiefs of the Dutch East India Company Factory in Nagasaki, Japan / [edited] by Cynthia Vialle, Isabel Tanaka-van Daalen, Leonard Blussé.

Includes archive source list and index.

Introduction to the Contents of the Deshima Dagregisters of 1641-1660 -- Deshima, the Dutch Factory in Nagasaki : A Brief Introduction -- Dagregister of Opperhoofd Maximiliaen Le Maire : 9 June-31 October 1641 -- Dagregister of Opperhoofd Jan van Elseracq : 1 November 1641-29 October 1642 -- Dagregister of Opperhoofd Pieter Antonisz Overtwater : 29 October 1642-1 August 1643 -- Dagregister of Opperhoofd Jan van Elseracq : 1 August 1643-24 November 1644 -- Dagregister of Opperhoofd Pieter Antonisz Overtwater : 24 November 1644-29 November 1645 -- Dagregister of Opperhoofd Reijnier van Tzum : 30 November 1645-27 October 1646 -- Dagregister of Opperhoofd Wilhem Versteeghen : 28 October 1646-10 October 1647 -- Dagregister of Opperhoofd Frederik Coyett : 3 November 1647-9 December 1648 -- Dagregister of Opperhoofd Dircq Snoucq : 9 December 1648-5 November 1649 -- Dagregister of Opperhoofd Anthonio van Brouckhorst : 5 November 1649-25 October 1650 -- Dagregister of Opperhoofd Pieter Sterthemius : 25 October 1650-1 November 1651 -- Dagregister of Opperhoofd Adriaen van der Burgh : 1 November 1651-3 November 1652 -- Dagregister of Opperhoofd Frederik Coyett : 4 November 1652-12 November 1653 -- Dagregister of Opperhoofd Gabriel Happart : 12 November 1653-31 October 1654 -- Dagregister of Opperhoofd Leonard Winnincx : 31 October 1654-23 October 1655 -- Dagregister of Opperhoofd Johannes Boucheljon : 23 October 1655-1 November 1656 -- Dagregister of Opperhoofd Zacharias Wagenaer : 2 November 1656-26 October 1657 -- Dagregister of Opperhoofd Johannes Boucheljon : 27 October 1657-23 October 1658 -- Dagregister of Opperhoofd Zacharias Wagenaer : 23 October 1658-3 November 1659 -- Dagregister of Opperhoofd Johannes Boucheljon : 4 November 1659-26 October 1660.

"The present volume of The Deshima Diaries consists of the diaries that were kept by the chiefs of the Dutch trading post in Japan during the first two decades of the so-called seclusion period (1640-1868). The employees of the Dutch East India Company - from 1640 the only Europeans in Japan -had to give up their relatively free life in the port of Hirado and were forced to move to the tiny island of Deshima in the Bay of Nagasaki. Continually surrounded by Japanese guards, spies, cooks, concubines and interpreters they were eager to continue their trading activities with their Japanese hosts. Every year, with a few exceptions, the chief of the factory and two or three staff members travelled to Edo to pay obeisance to the Shogun. The diaries in this volume describe in detail how the Dutch merchants grappled with the severe restrictions that were imposed on them, but their writings also shed surprising light on social and economic life in Nagasaki and beyond"--Provided by publisher.

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