Contents

Preface

List of Tables and Illustrations

Glossary/Abbreviations

Note on Weights and Currencies

Introduction

Japanese Historiography

The East-Southeast Asian Bullion Trade Zone

The Book

Chapter 1 Kyushu in the East Asian Trade Networks

Spanish Manila and the Galleon Trade

The Portuguese “Discovery” of the Kyushu Trade Networks

The Ryukyu Tribute Trade

Gold, Silver, and Copper Mines in Japan

Japanese Maritime Trade with China and Korea

The Portuguese Missionary Arrival in Kyushu

Conclusion

Chapter 2 Merchants and Missionaries in the Foundation of Nagasaki

Nagasaki’s Obscure Origins

The Portuguese Merchant-Missionary Arrival in Nagasaki

Nagasaki under Jesuit Rule

The Manila-Japan Trade Connection

Return to Imperial Rule (1588) and Persecutions

Conclusion

Chapter 3 Nagasaki and the Silk Trade

Setting the Scene on Silk Production and Procurement

Functional Aspects of the Macau-Nagasaki Silk Trade

The Portuguese Merchant Presence

The VOC Silk Trade with Tonkin

Conclusion

Chapter 4 The Dutch and English at Hirado

The Dutch Establishment at Hirado (1609–41)

The Dutch and the Contest for Taiwan (1604–61)

The Zheng Family Dynasty

The Dutch Trade at Hirado

The English at Hirado (1613–23)

Conclusion

Chapter 5 The Shimabara Rebellion (1637–38) Revisited

Background to the Rebellion

The Duarte Correa Manuscript and the First Stirrings of Rebellion

The Battle for Shimabara

Millennial Rebels or Economic Victims?

The Anti-Christian Backlash

Conclusion

Chapter 6 Nagasaki and the Southeast Asia Trade

Drawing the Contours of the “Red Seal” Trade

The Chinese Junk Trade at Nagasaki in the kai-hentai Records

Status of the Junk Traffic in 1664

Scale and Scope of the Nagasaki-Vietnam Trade

Conclusion

Chapter 7 The Chinese of Nagasaki and their Social and Commercial Activities

Origins of the Nagasaki Chinese Community under the Ming

Chinese Temple Communities in Nagasaki and their Functional Role

The Zheng Trade with Nagasaki during the Ming-Qing Transition

The Restoration of the China Trade under the Qing

The Seventeenth Century Chinese Legacy in Nagasaki

Conclusion

Chapter 8 Nagasaki in the Age of Kaempfer

Kaempfer’s Nagasaki

Dutch Trade at Deshima

A Dutch West India Company Account of 1721–23

Carl Peter Thunberg’s Account of 1795

Closed Door under Foreign Pressure

Conclusion

Chapter 9 Parameters of the Bullion Trade Economy Network

Portuguese Profits on the Silk-for-Silver Trade

Putting a Value on the Dutch and Chinese Bullion Trade

Portuguese and Dutch in the Global Copper Trade

Reassessing the Silver Drain from Japan, the Role of Arai Hakuseki

Nagasaki and the Asian Bullion Trade Reprised

Conclusion

Global Economy and World System

Stagnant Japan, Rising Japan, or Mid-Tokugawa Crisis?

A Precocious Early Modernization?

Nagasaki’s Pioneer Role in Japan’s Industrialization

Bibliography

Index