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Universidade Nova de Lisboa
2000
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- The anxiety of the silent traders. Dutch perception on the Portuguese banishment from Japan Natália Tojo Historia Around 1635 the VOC situation in Japan have seen a positive shifting dueto the increase of its trade and the ameliorating of their relations with the bakufu;however the Dutch have been then confronted with a resilient distrust regardlesstheir attempts to conquer the Japanese acceptance. The Dutch reputation as piratesand the resemblance with the Portuguese and Spanish in matters of religion offeredthe Japanese good reasons of suspicion on their purposes. Notwithstanding theincreasing feeble situation of the Portuguese at the time, the volume of trade, theirlong experience and acquaintance in Japan, as well as their contacts kept in theTokugawa court, combined with their own difficulties in the country, preventedthem to utterly predict the fragility of their enemies, overestimating hence theirstrength. Even if they were well informed of an eventual expelling of their Macaneserivals from the territory, it seems that they have been unsure of this drastic move tillthe last moment. Based on the analyses of Dutch sources, mainly printed material,the aim of this text, through the comparison of the Luso-Dutch standing in Japan inthe decade of 1630, is to examine the VOC´s weight in the country at the time andits perception on the Portuguese banishment from in Japan in 1639. 2000 artículo científico 0874-8438 https://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=36100107 en http://www.redalyc.org/revista.oa?id=361 Bulletin of Portuguese - Japanese Studies application/pdf Universidade Nova de Lisboa Bulletin of Portuguese - Japanese Studies (Portugal) Num.1