The Presence of the ‘Portugals’ in Macao and Japan in Richard Hakluyt´s navigations

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contents The Presence of the ‘Portugals’ in Macao and Japan in Richard Hakluyt´s navigations Rogério Miguel Puga Historia Since its (Portuguese) foundation, Macao was a strategic point for thePortuguese trade and missionary work both in mainland China and Japan, andthroughout the sixteenth-century descriptions as well as references to these stillunknown territories reached Tudor England either by the hand of English travellers ortranslations of continental sources. In this paper, we analyse Richard Hakluyt’s(1552?-1616) references both to Macao and Japan in The Principall Navigations,Voyages and Discoveries of the English Nation as symbols of the luxury and profits thatPortugal brings from the East Indies in ships that English privateers and corsairsattack in the Atlantic Ocean to obtain not only goods but also vital informationregarding the routes, the weather and the people from all the different countries andplaces from the Cape of Good Hope to the Islands of the Rising Sun. Hakluyt’s compilationallowed its sixteenth/seventeenth-century’s readers to glimpse through thePortuguese empire in the East, while retaining important information which, in a nearfuture, would contribute to the disruption of the ‘Carreira da Índia’. 2002 artículo científico 0874-8438 https://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=36100506 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.5
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spellingShingle The Presence of the ‘Portugals’ in Macao and Japan in Richard Hakluyt´s navigations
Rogério Miguel Puga
Historia
The Presence of the ‘Portugals’ in Macao and Japan in Richard Hakluyt´s navigations Rogério Miguel Puga Historia Since its (Portuguese) foundation, Macao was a strategic point for thePortuguese trade and missionary work both in mainland China and Japan, andthroughout the sixteenth-century descriptions as well as references to these stillunknown territories reached Tudor England either by the hand of English travellers ortranslations of continental sources. In this paper, we analyse Richard Hakluyt’s(1552?-1616) references both to Macao and Japan in The Principall Navigations,Voyages and Discoveries of the English Nation as symbols of the luxury and profits thatPortugal brings from the East Indies in ships that English privateers and corsairsattack in the Atlantic Ocean to obtain not only goods but also vital informationregarding the routes, the weather and the people from all the different countries andplaces from the Cape of Good Hope to the Islands of the Rising Sun. Hakluyt’s compilationallowed its sixteenth/seventeenth-century’s readers to glimpse through thePortuguese empire in the East, while retaining important information which, in a nearfuture, would contribute to the disruption of the ‘Carreira da Índia’. 2002 artículo científico 0874-8438 https://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=36100506 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.5
title The Presence of the ‘Portugals’ in Macao and Japan in Richard Hakluyt´s navigations
topic Historia
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