The Dutch East India Company in early modern Japan

• Verfasst von: Laver, Michael S. [VerfasserIn]
• Titel: The Dutch East India Company in early modern Japan
• Titelzusatz: gift giving and diplomacy
• Verf.angabe: Michael Laver
• Verlagsort: London ; New York ; Oxford ; New Delhi ; Sydney
• Verlag: Bloomsbury Academic
• E-Jahr: 2020
• Jahr: [2020]
• Umfang: xi, 171 Seiten
• Fussnoten: Hier auch später erschienene, unveränderte Nachdrucke
• ISBN: 978-1-350-24681-2
• ISBN: 1-350-12604-7
• ISBN: 978-1-350-12603-9
• ISBN: 978-1-350-12604-6
• Dokumenttyp: Bibliografie
• Sprache: eng
• RVK-Notation: NW 6220
• Sach-SW: East India Company
• Sach-SW: Asian history
• Sach-SW: Colonial companies
• Sach-SW: Asia
• Sach-SW: Japan
• Sach-SW: History
• K10plus-PPN: 169854510X

Abstract

Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: The Dutch East India Company and the Rhythm of Life in Japan -- The Dutch in Japan -- Tokugawa Japan -- The Hofreis (Court Journey) -- Chapter 1: Gift-Giving and the Early Modern Web of Diplomacy -- Chapter 2: Horses and Camels and Birds of Paradise, Oh My: Exotic Animals as Gifts -- Megafauna -- Birds -- Animal Products -- Chapter 3: Most Exquisite Curiosities of Nature and Art -- Carpets -- Maps and Globes -- Decorative Containers -- Paintings and Engravings -- A Tale of Two Lanterns

Abstract

"Michael Laver examines how the giving of exotic gifts in early modern Japan facilitated Dutch trade by ascribing legitimacy to the shogunal government and by playing into the shogun's desire to create a worldview centered on a Japanese tributary state. The book reveals how formal and informal gift exchange also created a smooth working relationship between the Dutch and the Japanese bureaucracy, allowing the politically charged issue of foreign trade to proceed relatively uninterrupted for over two centuries. Based mainly on Dutch diaries and official Dutch East India Company records, as well as exhaustive secondary research conducted in Dutch, English, and Japanese, this new study fills an important gap in our knowledge of European-Japanese relations. It will also be of great interest to anyone studying the history of material culture and cross-cultural relations in a global context."