The Dutch East India Company in Early Modern Japan: Gift Giving and Diplomacy

by Michael Laver

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1350246816
• ISBN13: 9781350246812
• Release Date: October 2021
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.59 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.1" x 9.2"