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Dutch Dejima Trade
After the Portuguese were expelled in 1641, the VOC factory was moved to the artificial island of Dejima in Nagasaki Bay, the sole window for Western…
Timeline
- 1641Dejima · NagasakiAfter the Portuguese were expelled, the VOC factory moved from Hirado to Dejima in Nagasaki Bay, with Dutch activity strictly confined to the artificial island.
- 1641–1650Nagasaki · KyushuThe shogunate stipulated that only one Dutch merchant ship could enter port each year, trade was supervised by the Nagasaki magistrate, and the Dutch were not free to move about the Japanese mainland; Dejima became the sole window for Japan-Europe trade.
Sources
- The Dutch Trading Post on Deshima — Grant K. Goodman (1986)
- Cambridge History of Japan, Volume 4: Early Modern Japan — John Whitney Hall et al. (1991)