The Deshima Diaries 1641-1660

The Dagregisters Kept by the Chiefs of the Dutch East India Company Factory in Nagasaki, Japan.

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The Deshima Diaries provide invaluable daily information on social and economic life in Tokugawa Japan in the early years of the Sakoku period.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Brill
• Seitenzahl: 938
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. August 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 266mm x 202mm x 66mm
• Gewicht: 2449g
• ISBN-13: 9789004451490
• ISBN-10: 9004451498
• Artikelnr.: 68367571

Autorenporträt

Cynthia Vialle, Leiden University, has published on a variety of topics related to the VOC, such as the Company's gift-giving practices, its trade in Japanese lacquerware, Chinese and Japanese porcelain, and other goods. Currently she is preparing a transcription of the correspondence of the Dutch factory in Hirado, Japan (1609-1633) with an English translation for publication. Isabel Tanaka-van Daalen is Associate Researcher at the Historiographical Institute, Tokyo University. She is preparing a PhD thesis on the role of the Japanese interpreters in information gathering and the formation of new knowledge and has published various articles on different interpreter families and their dealings with the Dutch on Deshima. She has also been an editor of the Kodansha's Nederlands-Japans Woordenboek (1994) and the Yogakushi Kenkyu Jiten (Encyclopedia for the Study of the History of "Western Learning"), Kyoto: Shibunkaku, 2021. Leonard Blussé, Ph.D. (1986), Leiden University, is Professor emeritus of the History of Asian-European Relations at that university. He has published monographs, translations, Dutch and Chinese source publications and many articles on East and Southeast Asia, including The Chinese Annals of Batavia, The Kai Ba Lidai Shiji (开吧 历代史纪) and other stories 1610-1795 (Brill, 2018).