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The Deshima Diaries 1641-1660
The Dagregisters Kept by the Chiefs of the Dutch East India Company Factory in Nagasaki, Japan.
The present volume of The Deshima Diaries consists of the journals that were kept by the chiefs of the Dutch trading post in Japan during the first two decades of the so called seclusion period (1640-1868). The employees of the Dutch East India Company â from 1640 the only Europeans in Japan - had to give up their relatively free life in the port of Hirado and were forced to move to the tiny island of Deshima in the Bay of Nagasaki. Continually surrounded by Japanese guards, spies, cooks, concubines and interpreters they were eager to continue their trading activities with their Japanese hosts. Every year, with a few exceptions, the chief of the factory and two or three staff members travelled to Edo to pay obeisance to the Shogun. The diaries in this volume describe in detail how the Dutch merchants grappled with the severe restrictions that were imposed on them, but their writings also shed surprising light on social and economic life in Nagasaki and beyond.
Cynthia Vialle, Leiden University, has published on a variety of topics related to the VOC, such as the Companyâs gift-giving practices, its trade in Japanese lacquerware, Chinese and Japanese porcelain, and other goods. Currently she is preparing a transcription of the correspondence of the Dutch factory in Hirado, Japan (1609-1633) with an English translation for publication.
Isabel Tanaka-van Daalen is Associate Researcher at the Historiographical Institute, Tokyo University. She is preparing a PhD thesis on the role of the Japanese interpreters in information gathering and the formation of new knowledge and has published various articles on different interpreter families and their dealings with the Dutch on Deshima. She has also been an editor of the Kodanshaâs Nederlands-Japans Woordenboek (1994) and the Yogakushi Kenkyu Jiten (Encyclopedia for the Study of the History of âWestern Learningâ), Kyoto: Shibunkaku, 2021.
Leonard Blussé, Ph.D. (1986), Leiden University, is Professor emeritus of the History of Asian-European Relations at that university. He has published monographs, translations, Dutch and Chinese source publications and many articles on East and Southeast Asia, including The Chinese Annals of Batavia, The Kai Ba Lidai Shiji (å¼å§ å代å²çºª) and other stories 1610-1795 (Brill, 2018).
Isabel Tanaka-van Daalen is Associate Researcher at the Historiographical Institute, Tokyo University. She is preparing a PhD thesis on the role of the Japanese interpreters in information gathering and the formation of new knowledge and has published various articles on different interpreter families and their dealings with the Dutch on Deshima. She has also been an editor of the Kodanshaâs Nederlands-Japans Woordenboek (1994) and the Yogakushi Kenkyu Jiten (Encyclopedia for the Study of the History of âWestern Learningâ), Kyoto: Shibunkaku, 2021.
Leonard Blussé, Ph.D. (1986), Leiden University, is Professor emeritus of the History of Asian-European Relations at that university. He has published monographs, translations, Dutch and Chinese source publications and many articles on East and Southeast Asia, including The Chinese Annals of Batavia, The Kai Ba Lidai Shiji (å¼å§ å代å²çºª) and other stories 1610-1795 (Brill, 2018).
Editorial Note
Acknowledgements
List of Figures
Prologue
Introduction to the Contents of the Deshima Dagregisters of 1641â1660
Deshima, the Dutch Factory in Nagasaki: A Brief Introduction
Dagregister of Opperhoofd Maximiliaen Le Maire: 9 Juneâ31 October 1641
Dagregister of Opperhoofd Jan van Elseracq: 1 November 1641â29 October 1642
Dagregister of Opperhoofd Pieter Antonisz Overtwater: 29 October 1642â 1 August 1643
Dagregister of Opperhoofd Jan van Elseracq: 1 August 1643â24 November 1644
Dagregister of Opperhoofd Pieter Antonisz Overtwater: 24 November 1644â 29 November 1645
Dagregister of Opperhoofd Reijnier van Tzum: 30 November 1645â 27 October 1646
Dagregister of Opperhoofd Wilhem Versteeghen: 28 October 1646â 10 October 1647
Dagregister of Opperhoofd Frederik Coyett: 3 November 1647â9 December 1648
Dagregister of Opperhoofd Dircq Snoucq: 9 December 1648â5 November 1649
Dagregister of Opperhoofd Anthonio van Brouckhorst: 5 November 1649â 25 October 1650
Dagregister of Opperhoofd Pieter Sterthemius: 25 October 1650â 1 November 1651
Dagregister of Opperhoofd Adriaen van der Burgh: 1 November 1651â 3 November 1652
Dagregister of Opperhoofd Frederik Coyett: 4 November 1652â12 November 1653
Dagregister of Opperhoofd Gabriel Happart: 12 November 1653â31 October 1654
Dagregister of Opperhoofd Leonard Winnincx: 31 October 1654â 23 October 1655
Dagregister of Opperhoofd Johannes Boucheljon: 23 October 1655â 1 November 1656
Dagregister of Opperhoofd Zacharias Wagenaer: 2 November 1656â 26 October 1657
Dagregister of Opperhoofd Johannes Boucheljon: 27 October 1657â 23 October 1658
Dagregister of Opperhoofd Zacharias Wagenaer: 23 October 1658â 3 November 1659
Dagregister of Opperhoofd Johannes Boucheljon: 4 November 1659â 26 October 1660
Sources
Glossary
Remarks on the Use of the Indexes
Index of Shipsâ Names
Index of Geographical Names
Index of Non-Japanese Names
Index of Japanese Names
Subject Index
Acknowledgements
List of Figures
Prologue
Introduction to the Contents of the Deshima Dagregisters of 1641â1660
Deshima, the Dutch Factory in Nagasaki: A Brief Introduction
Dagregister of Opperhoofd Maximiliaen Le Maire: 9 Juneâ31 October 1641
Dagregister of Opperhoofd Jan van Elseracq: 1 November 1641â29 October 1642
Dagregister of Opperhoofd Pieter Antonisz Overtwater: 29 October 1642â 1 August 1643
Dagregister of Opperhoofd Jan van Elseracq: 1 August 1643â24 November 1644
Dagregister of Opperhoofd Pieter Antonisz Overtwater: 24 November 1644â 29 November 1645
Dagregister of Opperhoofd Reijnier van Tzum: 30 November 1645â 27 October 1646
Dagregister of Opperhoofd Wilhem Versteeghen: 28 October 1646â 10 October 1647
Dagregister of Opperhoofd Frederik Coyett: 3 November 1647â9 December 1648
Dagregister of Opperhoofd Dircq Snoucq: 9 December 1648â5 November 1649
Dagregister of Opperhoofd Anthonio van Brouckhorst: 5 November 1649â 25 October 1650
Dagregister of Opperhoofd Pieter Sterthemius: 25 October 1650â 1 November 1651
Dagregister of Opperhoofd Adriaen van der Burgh: 1 November 1651â 3 November 1652
Dagregister of Opperhoofd Frederik Coyett: 4 November 1652â12 November 1653
Dagregister of Opperhoofd Gabriel Happart: 12 November 1653â31 October 1654
Dagregister of Opperhoofd Leonard Winnincx: 31 October 1654â 23 October 1655
Dagregister of Opperhoofd Johannes Boucheljon: 23 October 1655â 1 November 1656
Dagregister of Opperhoofd Zacharias Wagenaer: 2 November 1656â 26 October 1657
Dagregister of Opperhoofd Johannes Boucheljon: 27 October 1657â 23 October 1658
Dagregister of Opperhoofd Zacharias Wagenaer: 23 October 1658â 3 November 1659
Dagregister of Opperhoofd Johannes Boucheljon: 4 November 1659â 26 October 1660
Sources
Glossary
Remarks on the Use of the Indexes
Index of Shipsâ Names
Index of Geographical Names
Index of Non-Japanese Names
Index of Japanese Names
Subject Index
All interested in the history of Tokugawa Japan, and anyone concerned with the history of trade and society in early modern East Asia and the VOC in particular.