Sino-Japanese Relations in Edo the Period Oba Osamu K6gakkan University by Translated Fogel Joshua A. 1 Part of On Ten. the Sailing Matter Japan Vessels to gazing painting--in Precious While Vessels. foyer the of home--of at a my a belonging vessel the Company Dutch returning Indies East Amsterdam, in to port to Eguchi •/• fl[• •Z Jir6 really stated: good is "Business paintings ships!" for H of Mr. Eguchi businessman, is but is also he collector scholar and Chinese of bronzes and a a jade, well addition, lover of is he In jack veritable of art. master, tea as as a ceremony a a all trades. Research into Chinese nowadays ceramics tends materials to concentrate on China unearthed in and loaded those dynasty vessels in the which Yuan have cargo on •fi:-•Bay, salvaged been in Sin'an The vessels sunken in Korea. Bay Sin'an said to were trading ships have been from they Japan. China arrived Had Japanese in route to en a perhaps they precious would vessels, have been they but sank port, and present, at now time, they removed from that precious have become in another many years sense. image The of gathering vessels small large like toward the two numerous arrows ships with their mainsails unfurled the Amsterdam of with port at teems even now a sense gravity truly of precious these for carried vessels. duplicate this back with I great care, a stored original of the item the in Maritime in Greenwich outside Museum London. they ships Chinese, Dutch people Nagasaki Be for the of both or were undoubtedly precious. ships city arrived When astir, in profits the the all for port, to was made enriched be the entire town. painting Nagasaki of period, in portion--up In the Edo the faced west-- a upper ships the necessarily the and Dejima, here. drawn the of Just to sea, west was were a anchor, vessel with Dutch furled its sail explanation: is ship and it carries the "Dutch at at •fd-). •/•" (Oranda anchor" kakari fune 7•- • ;0• its ship 7)• lef• Dutch another From is being by drawn into about dozen lined small vessels in Beside the port two up a rows. • (hikibune "tugboats" •[ small written vessels is ), ship and beside the is Dutch written (Oranda •- irifune "arrival Dutch of 7•_ vessel" ). •/• •, • military site of At the a a arriving vessel, salute for the ship's gunpowder the in the smoke. In cannot stern one see front of is sailboat "intelligence it ffl- is which • • (chftshinsh• boat" written ) next to a points right • various and (banshft "guard •. its boats" ). There is another to at are Dejima different vessel of lef[ of the anchor the in it is and labeled sort to at a open sea, • fi]-). ship" (T6sh• right-angle "Chinese Dejima At from is the site which Chinese at a *Unless noted, otherwise the all translator's. notes are •,• Edofidai • • •-•i• •_ • (Tokyo: Nit-Ch• hiwa T6h6 shoten, • 1980), 206-23. ¢) no pp. 51 ship be Compound. Chinese The Chinese the and ships their to unloaded appears cargo stuck in the open sea. Nagasaki, be of of the Nagasaki. Illustrations port of of Illustrations the Port angle depicted frequently drawings, Nagasaki prints at from they woodblock an are or • P• of-Mt. Inasa which from distance the to from top which waterway on runs surveys a of depicts outlet the drawings portion I1• of the The •J: • Nomozaki promontory. upper in Offshore, Dejima. finds portion into the lower and middle from the the waterway; one pulling into it the tugboat is anchor; vessel painting, Dutch is of the the at center a a entering harbor. the vessel is Dutch the the waterway, entrance to as of be much Nagasaki there Canton, of harbor and depictions of to In appears more harbor that perhaps the fact the This due China. either Japan of the than to West was or they which with belonged object the travels of their the country which to were was longed. Among they which foreign for land only it dealing that and extent to a was punchbowls with the decorated earlier, there touched which I Chinese exportware are on the anchored in ships Dutch number of plates port which Factory and Canton are any on foreign of recollections coupled with of Capetown. Memories of voyages are ocean • [•[, •p-• :• • retainer superior Ch6zaemon Saisho from his letter In a to scenery. a province, Guangdong in shipwrecked Huizhou who of from domain Satsuma the at was extraordinarily arrived in foreign vessels "numerous Canton he that an notes at Dutch them Among from the West. vessels Over mood. twenty were came prosperous different, surely this." ships. Westerners Japan Russian and to no cannot were compare drawing for returning with home memento. a a National Nagasaki Amsterdam the depictions of seeing of the remember at port I make wanted elsewhere, but I and Antwerp, try in Maritime to to the Museum Museum, National Amsterdam painting the in portion photograph of the central enlarged of the an ship Chinese just its leR Dejima and ship Bay, in Dutch There to Museum. was a was a the ships docked and Chinese site where the certain anchor. To extent at can see one a built. been had mansion Glover's Of behind it. yet fields terraced not course, Chinese of bringing wondered, all vessels, of I What cargo• manner sort were had Japan. itself bringing I culture Chinese it--indeed, books foremost to come among scrolls---"T6sen These this all depictions clear made which two no to were me. across •J• • •J• • [] zu" "Gaikoku vessels) and zu"/•;•j• • [] (Drawings of Chinese sengu no • in • vessel)---held Museum Documents the in foreign Matsura [] (Rigging of a prefecture. Nagasaki Hirado, Museum) Nagasaki National (Amsterdam of of Port Illustration the 52 "TSsen The zu" in Hirado. Hirado The is known well the base of no area as operations • Wang of [d. =t= Zhi Ming-era 1560], pirate the during active Jiajing the [1522-66], and the for base Japanese successive trade with Portugal, England, years as and Holland in sixteenth • the 9-• J:JJ Zheng Chenggong [Koxinga, century. 1624-62] said have been born there. feeling still have fond I about to the time first visited I was a Hirado examine involving documents the transported books China; to from time, that I at hired "Maruya" •--•, from •L dormitory high for students, school young a woman to a documents for copy me. The Matsura Documents objects holds Museum the historical and materials art by collected daimyrs successive of the Among them, house. Matsura the collected items resulting from knowledge the extensive ofMatsura Kiyoshi • •'• •-• ,-• kami Iki • • no • (Seizan • [ ]), • • F• 1760-1841 -• author the of Kasshi (Evening Chats from yawa Day [of the Kasshi the Eleventh 1821]), Month of discussed chapter in earlier this of an worE, daimy6 who from [1775] An'ei [1805], Bunka 4 forms the 3 of the to was core collection. museum's The "Trsen zu" is of the famous items this in There is museum. no one more a Meiji it from of the Nagasaki in Municipal the which Museum with copy era many scholars familiar. studying When illustration, this though, I interesting had I are was an experience which like would July I relate. August and In of 1971, Joseph Professor to Needham, the history scholar of the of Chinese Cambridge science University, great from Kyoto. in invited him I August home and photograph showed 25 him to of was my on a painting. just this published had He four, volume three magisterial of his Science part Civilization and China extremely and interested in because it contained research was on ships) Chinese disappointed, said he He for had known he painting, earlier this of was could have introduced together it his in work. hand, Umbrella in Professor for off we set Then, Taiwan. months doing later Cambridge. I research in just had I seven was some arrived Hall, college Clare Cambridge University, April sometime after at 20, at 1972 my learned when that letters I from Professor waiting Needham They for two were me. were actually the latter. been One had Japan forwarded and Cambridge. in sent to same to me The that he had similar illustration in Melbourne the content had I was to seen a one him, shown and he wanted Cambridge. him arrived in I to contact me soon as as Same The Illustration reception in Melbourne. the In master's at room Gonville College, and Caius where Needham served Dr. with I master, met as Commander D. the Waters of W. Greenwich Maritime Museum, comparing he and was slides projectors shown simultaneously. The slides had been Cdr. two Waters sent to on Captain from result retired McRobert Melbourne, who lived in Australia. As a we were determine able that illustrations the problem the The to remained two to were same. as original, determined the which but this could be basis the Looking of slides. not was on Needham Dr. said: "This be resolved won't inspect until at both." I me, someone can concluded that "there other familiar them, with just I of and I'll way. was no am one inspect have the other." home, returned and after I visit the United States, to took I to a a flight from Hawaii Melbourne. off, When going felt it take I long about to set we was as fly Japan. In waiting MeRobert Mr. for the to to Melbourne event, any at was me Airport. proceeded immediately together We Gallery National the of Victoria to to see eight Japanese Volume the in editions immense of this work.