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Universidade Nova de Lisboa
2003
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- Nagasaki/Deshima after the portuguese in dutch accounts of the 17th century Alexandra Curvelo Historia At around the same time that the VOC managed to gain a foothold in Japan in1609, and particularly after 1640, when the Dutch installed themselves on the artificialisland of Deshima in Nagasaki Bay, several texts about the Japanese archipelagoappeared in Europe, Arnoldus Montanus book being one of the most interestingexamples of this vast literary universe.The Memorable Envoys to the Emperors of Japan, an account of various VOCembassies to the court in Edo, is a compilation of several sources of information thatallows us to analyse and comment upon an image of Japan that was divulged inEurope up until the 19th century through the Dutch presence in Deshima. Thistrading post on the island that juts out became Japans only gateway to the outsideworld and was the port from which many famous voyages set sail, namely those byPetrus Blokovius and Andreas Frisius, the Opperhoofd Zacarias Wagener and thevoyage of Hendrick Cornelisz Schaep and Wilhelm Bylvelt.The descriptions and facts mentioned in Montanus work provide us withinvaluable date about the relations between the Europeans and the Japanese in theperiod just after the expulsion of the Portuguese and the religious orders from theterritory, especially with regard to three main cultural vertices that were of primordialimportance from the very beginning: religion, commerce and knowledge. 2003 artículo científico 0874-8438 https://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=36100607 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.6