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Melchior van Santvoort

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149:(near Osaka) and then on to Edo. Some of them were received by Tokugawa Ieyasu, who questioned them at length on European politics, wars and foreign affairs. The crew eventually went separate ways when some decided they should split the money provided as compensation for their losses of the ship and cargo. The nineteen bronze cannons were unloaded from the ship and, according to Spanish accounts, later used at the decisive 20: 276:
was increasingly hostile to foreign contact. Christianity was banned in 1614, and from 1634 the Dutch traders came into conflict with Chinese merchants in Nagasaki. In 1639, an order came from the Shōgun that (with the exception of the VOC merchants at
94:) off the coast of Chile, where some of the crew and captains of both vessels lost their lives in an encounter with natives. They decide to leave hostile Spanish waters and sell their woolen cloth cargo in Japan rather than in the warmer 261:, in early 1613. Van Santvoort was also reported to have married “Isabella” a Japanese woman, the daughter of a carpenter. Van Santvoort's daughters married Pieter van Santen, Christy Villanueva, and 202:
The head of the Pattani Dutch trading post, Victor Sprinckel, initially refused to take up the offer of trade with Japan since he was too busy dealing with Portuguese opposition in
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who was a direct retainer of the Shōgun), negotiated on behalf of the emissaries. The mission was well received and resulted in permission to establish a trading post in
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Letters Written by the English Residents in Japan, 1611-1623, with Other Documents on the English Trading Settlement in Japan in the Seventeenth Century
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Van Santvoort operated his business in Nagasaki, but continued to maintain close contact with his compatriots in Hirado. However, the rule of Shōgun
253:(also a hatamoto), reportedly made a fortune in trade between Japan and Southeast Asia. Both of them were reported by Dutch traders in the 435: 450: 445: 401: 227: 210:, a Dutch merchant with a cargo he wished to sell in Hirado. Once they arrived van Santvoort served as interpreter. He assisted the 51: 184:. They had letters from the Japanese with an invitation for the Dutch to come trade. At Pattani, Quaeckernaeck joined the fleet of 289:. Willem Verstegen married his daughter on Taiwan while on their way to Batavia. Melchior van Santvoort died in Batavia in 1641. 281:) all Europeans, their Japanese spouses, and any half-Japanese children were to be expelled from Japan. Van Santvoort left for 188:, his compatriot and relative, on 19 August 1606. Quaeckernaeck died however in a naval engagement when Matelief destroyed the 286: 185: 211: 218:, VOC) envoys, Abraham van den Brock and Nicolas Puyck during their diplomatic mission to visit the Shōgun in 23:
From left to right: "Blijde Boodschap", "Trouwe", "'t Geloove", "Liefde" and "Hoope". 17th-century engraving.
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was lost. With a decimated and sick crew (only 24 were still alive, and several were dying) the damaged
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Henry Smith, editor, Program of Asian Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara, 1980.
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History of Holland – Chapter VI: The Beginnings of the Dutch Republic (by George Edmundson)
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vessel and that the crew should be executed. The ship was seized on orders of
206:. Van Santvoort was only able to return to Japan in 1609, in the company of 73: 54:. Van Santvoort remained in Japan, where he spent 39 years as a merchant in 141: 131: 231: 189: 115: 95: 55: 235: 196: 19: 320: 278: 239: 122: 394:
The Company and the Shogun: The Dutch Encounter with Tokugawa Japan
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on 21 October 1600 (between Tokogawa forces and their rivals).
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Van Santvoort together with another former crewmember of
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Dutch sailor who travelled to Japan (c. 1570 – 1641)
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Index


Dutchmen
Japan
Jacob Quaeckernaeck
Jan Joosten
William Adams
Nagasaki
Rotterdam
five ship expedition to the East Indies
Straits of Magellan
Hoop
Moluccas
Usuki
Kyūshū
Portuguese
Jesuit
pirate
Tokugawa Ieyasu
daimyō
Edo
shōgun
Sakai
Battle of Sekigahara
Jacob Quaeckernaeck
Red Seal Ship
Hirado
Pattani
Malay Peninsula
Cornelis Matelief de Jonge
Portuguese

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