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E-mail Message: I thought you might be interested in this item at http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1114439225 Title: The Dutch East India Company in early modern Japan : gift giving and diplomacy Author: Michael S Laver Publisher: London, UK ; New York, NY : Bloomsbury Academic, 2020. ISBN/ISSN: 1350126039 9781350126039 OCLC:1114439225

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The Dutch East India Company in early modern Japan : gift giving and diplomacy

Author:	Michael S Laver
Publisher:	London, UK ; New York, NY : Bloomsbury Academic, 2020.
Edition/Format:	Print book : EnglishView all editions and formats
Summary:	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 Read more...
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Subjects	East India Company. Colonial companies -- Japan -- History. Colonial companies -- Asia -- History. View all subjects
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Genre/Form:	History
Document Type:	Book
All Authors / Contributors:	Michael S Laver Find more information about:
ISBN:	1350126039 9781350126039
OCLC Number:	1114439225
Description:	xi, 171 pages ; 24 cm
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
Responsibility:	Michael Laver.

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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.

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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 Read more...

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