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Hirado Dutch Trading Post

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285:, who had 72 private houses demolished to make space for it on the waterfront. In the early Edo period, Japan actively traded with other countries, and ships from China, Portugal, and other countries arrived in Nagasaki. As the amount of trade increased dramatically, and construction of a large warehouse was undertaken to store the enormous amount of goods and to alleviate congestion in Nagasaki harbor. According to the diary of the Dutch Trading Post Chief and other records, the company initially rented a single house with a storehouse attached, and as trade expanded, the facilities were expanded and improved in succession in 1612, 1616, 1618, 1623, 1637, and 1639. In particular, the large warehouses built in 1637 and 1639 after trade was halted for five years from 1628 due to the 76: 48: 83: 55: 31: 334:, Nagasaki in May 1641, which kept all contact and trade under the direct supervision of the shogunate. Afterwards, the site of the Dutch Trading Post continued to be used by the townspeople of Hirado. A map of the area from the mid-Edo period still contained place names such as "Dutch Well" and "Dutch River", and fragments of the walls of the Dutch warehouse survived into modern times. A full scale 488: 338:
was made from 1987 to 2003. The city of Hirado decided to reconstruct the building as it would have appeared in 1640 based on the foundation stones and on contemporary drawings and written descriptions, and to open the site as a museum and tourist attraction in 2011.
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The main stone warehouse, 46 meters long and 13 meters wide, is regarded as the first Western-style building to be constructed in Japan. Although overseas travel by Japanese and the arrival of Portuguese and other foreign ships were banned due to the
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was a Dutch merchant, who founded the trade on Japan and Korea in 1609. Jacques Specx received the support of
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on 20 September 1609. The building was constructed under the guidance of
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Hirado Dutch Trading Post is located in Nagasaki Prefecture
Hirado Dutch Trading Post is located in Japan
Hirado, Nagasaki
Japan
Kyushu
33°22′22″N 129°33′25″E / 33.37278°N 129.55694°E / 33.37278; 129.55694
Edo period
National Historic Site of Japan
Dutch East India Company
Hirado
Nagasaki Prefecture
Japan
National Historic Site of Japan
Jacques Specx
William Adams
Tokugawa Ieyasu
trading factory
Hirado
Matsura Takanobu
daimyō
Hirado Domain
Taiowan Incident
national isolation policy
Bakumatsu period
Shogun
Tokugawa Iemitsu
ban on Christianity
François Caron
Nicolaes Couckebacker

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