Dutch Trade at the Nagasaki Dejima Factory

Timeline

1. 1665Dejima · NagasakiIn the 1660s the VOC factory was permanently stationed on Dejima, with seasonal merchant ships calling to negotiate trades with the Japanese; Dutch activity was confined to the artificial harbor of Dejima, and daily supplies and negotiations required permission from the Nagasaki magistrate's office.
2. 1665Nagasaki · NagasakiTrade exchanged Japanese copper, lacquerware, and other goods for raw silk from the Asian mainland and products of the southern seas; interpreters and Dutch books flowed in through this channel, laying a documentary foundation for later Rangaku, though in the 1660s it remained small-scale elite knowledge transmission.