| ID | 095356 |
| Title Proper | Fake embassy, the lord of Taiwan and Tokugawa Japan |
| Language | ENG |
| Author | Clulow, Adam |
| Publication | 2010. |
| Summary / Abstract (Note) | In 1624, the Dutch East India Company established a colony on Taiwan. When Dutch authorities moved to tax and restrict Japanese traders, who had been sailing to the island for a number of years, they encountered immediate resistance spearheaded by Suetsugu Heiz?, a Nagasaki official and merchant heavily invested in the Taiwan route. As part of his struggle against the Dutch, Heiz? attempted to drag the Japanese state into the conflict by engineering a fake embassy formed of 16 aboriginal men recruited from a village in Taiwan and transported to the center of Tokugawa power in Edo. This paper explores the embassy and uses it to consider why powerful Asian states like Tokugawa Japan displayed so little interest in overseas expansion, creating a vacuum of power that European overseas enterprises rushed enthusiastically to fill. |
| `In' analytical Note | Japanese Studies Vol. 30, No. 1; May 2010: p22-41 |
| Journal Source | Japanese Studies Vol. 30, No. 1; May 2010: p22-41 |
| Key Words | Embassy ; Taiwan ; Tokugawa Japan ; Dutch ; Japan ; Dutch East India Company |