The Dutch East India Company in Early Modern Japan: Gift Giving and Diplomacy by Michael Laver

The Dutch East India Company in Early Modern Japan: Gift Giving and Diplomacy

Michael Laver

184 pages first pub 2020 (editions) user-added

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Michael Laver examines how the giving of exotic gifts in early modern Japan facilitated Dutch trade by ascribing legitimacy to the shogunal government and by playing into the shogun's desire to create a worldview centered on a Japanese tributary s...

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