Letters Written by the English Residents in Japan, 1611-1623

Letters Written by the English Residents in Japan, 1611-1623 PDF

Author: Naojiro Murakami

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2017-10-20

Total Pages: 356

ISBN-13: 9780282751661

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Excerpt from Letters Written by the English Residents in Japan, 1611-1623: With Other Documents on the English Trading Settlement in Japan in Seventeenth Century In 1611, having heard from the newly arrived Dutch merchants of the establishment of an En glish factory in_java, Adams wrote a letter address ed to his unknown countrymen, asking them to inform his wife and friends in England of himself he also described in this letter the fair prospects of the Japan trade. Before this reached England, however, the East India Company had already decided upon founding a trading settlement in Japan, and sent a fleet under command of Captain John Saris. The Clove arr1ved at Hirado on the 1lth of June, ' 1613. The desired privileges were granted by the government, and a factory was established at Hirado, with Richard Cocks as the chief merchant, and Adams as one of the mem bers. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.