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Record Nr.

UNINA9910791897103321

Autore

Boxer C. R (Charles Ralph), <1904-2000., >

Titolo

The affair of the "Madre de Deus" : a chapter in the history of the Portuguese in Japan / / .R. Boxer

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London : , : Routledge, , 1929, 2011

ISBN

1-136-90726-2

1-136-90727-0

1-283-03726-2

9786613037268

0-203-84265-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (76 p.)

Collana

Routledge library editions.Japan ; ; v. 26

Disciplina

952.025

Soggetti

Europeans - Japan - History - 16th century

Europeans - Japan - History - 17th century

Japan History Tokugawa period, 1600-1868

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

First published in 1929.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

BOOK COVER; TITLE01; COPYRIGHT; TITLE02; CONTENTS; MAPS AND ILLUSTRATIONS; INTRODUCTION; I; II; III; IV; V; APPENDIX I: CHARLEVOIX'S ACCOUNT OF THE LOSS OF THE "MADRE DE DEUS."; APPENDIX II: NARRATIVE OF THE JOURNEY TO JAPAN IN 1609 BY HENDRIK VAN RAAY; APPENDIX III: GRANT OF THE CAPTAINCY OF MUSCAT TO ANDREĢ PESSOA; APPENDIX IV: ROYAL REGULATIONS ON THE JESUIT TRADE IN JAPAN; APPENDIX V: THE JAPANESE IN MALACCA 1614-1615; APPENDIX VI: A NOTE ON THE "MADRE DE DEUS."

APPENDIX VII: TRANSLATION OF AN EXTRACT FROM A LETTER OF JACQUES SPECX, DUTCH FACTOR IN JAPAN, DATED NAGASAKI, 3RD NOVEMBER, 1610BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX

Sommario/riassunto

The fact that the Portuguese opened up the Far East to European maritime enterprise is well known, but the prosperity to which their trade attained in that region is less so, as historians have tended to dwell on the English or Dutch activities. The period of Luso-Japanese trade is therefore of interest in more ways than one, and in particular the first decade of the seventeenth century when Japan was being



moulded by Tokugawa Iyeyasu and when the country was still open to foreigners regardless of their race or religion. This volume involved considerable research in four languages and most