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

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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 state. The book reveals how formal and informal gift exchange also created a smooth working relationship between the Dutch and the Japanese bureaucracy, allowing the politically charged issue of foreign trade to proceed relatively uninterrupted for over two centuries.Based mainly on Dutch diaries and official Dutch East India Company records, as well as exhaustive secondary research conducted in Dutch, English, and Japanese, this new study fills an important gap in our knowledge of European-Japanese relations. It will also be of great interest to anyone studying the history of material culture and cross-cultural relations in a global context.

FORMATPaperback LANGUAGEEnglish CONDITIONBrand New Author Biography

Michael Laver is Department Chair and Associate Professor of History at the Rochester Institute of Technology, USA. He is the author of The Sakoku Edicts and the Politics of Tokugawa Hegemony (2011) and Japan's Economy by Proxy in the Seventeenth Century (2008).

Table of Contents

List of IllustrationsIntroduction: The VOC and the Rhythm of Life in Early Modern Japan1. Gift Giving and the Early Modern Web of Diplomacy2. The Shogun's Menagerie: Exotic Animals as Gifts3. Objet d'art: Most Exquisite Curiosities of Nature and Art4. Curios, Rarities and European Manufactured Goods5. Butter Diplomacy: Food and Drink as Gifts6. A Tale of Two LanternsConclusionBibliographyIndex

Review

Laver's strength is storytelling. He makes use of many detailed examples, culled almost exclusively from the seventeenth-century 'dagregisters', to engage the reader. * Monumenta Nipponica *Michael Laver's concise but wide-ranging study of the Dutch East India Company in Tokugawa Japan adopts the lens of gift exchange to provide a fascinating account of the political, social, and material engagements that facilitated and embodied the Japanese-Dutch relationship from the early seventeenth to the mid-nineteenth century. * Early Modern Low Countries *Michael Laver collects fascinating stories about the political and economic roles played by the performance of gift exchanges between the Dutch East India Company and the Japanese. All those interested in the history of trade will find this book both illuminating, enjoyable, and broadly readable. * Terrance Jackson, Professor of History, Adrian College, Michigan, USA *This study brings together scattered and sometimes inaccessible data to position the shogun's realm firmly within the burgeoning field of diplomatic history and present-giving. It will be of use to historians of international encounter, overseas trade, knowledge transfer, and all those who wonder how cultures seek - and so often fail - to put themselves across when encounter the Other. * Timon Screech, Professor of the History of Art, SOAS, University of London, UK *Michael Laver's The Dutch East India Company in Early Modern Japan: Gift Giving and Diplomacy presents a readable, coherent, and detailed study of gift giving and its importance to the Dutch East India Company in maintaining its trade relationship with Tokugawa leaders. -- John E. Van Sant * BMGN Low Countries Historical Review *

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A study of the Dutch East India Company's gift giving to early modern Japan, a tool of diplomacy that enabled the only European access to Japan for over two centuries.

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This study brings together scattered and sometimes inaccessible data to position the shogun's realm firmly within the burgeoning field of diplomatic history and present-giving. It will be of use to historians of international encounter, overseas trade, knowledge transfer, and all those who wonder how cultures seek - and so often fail - to put themselves across when encounter the Other.

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A study of the Dutch East India Company's gift giving to early modern Japan, a tool of diplomacy that enabled the only European access to Japan for over two centuries.

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The first book to focus on the crucial cultural exchange of gift giving and its impact on early modern Euro-Japanese relations

Details ISBN1350246816 Short Title The Dutch East India Company in Early Modern Japan Pages 240 Language English Year 2021 ISBN-10 1350246816 ISBN-13 9781350246812 Format Paperback Publication Date 2021-10-21 Imprint Bloomsbury Academic Subtitle Gift Giving and Diplomacy Author Michael Laver UK Release Date 2021-10-21 Place of Publication London Country of Publication United Kingdom NZ Release Date 2021-10-21 Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC DEWEY 952.025 Audience Tertiary & Higher Education AU Release Date 2021-10-20 We've got this

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