The Deshima diaries : : marginalia 1740-1800 / / edited by Leonard Blussé [and three others].

• TeilnehmendeR: Blussé, Leonard, 1946-
• Place / Publishing House: Tokyo, Japan : : The Japan-Netherlands Institute,, [2015]; ©2015
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (620 pages)
• Notes: Includes index.

English translation of the marginalia, or marginal notes, that were added to the text of the Deshima Diaries from the 1670's onwards in order to provide the Dutch chief of Deshima with a quick reference to the notes of his predecessors. This volume covers the marginalia from the 1740-4800 diaries. Providing the general public, and especially those who have neither a command of Dutch nor of Japanese access to a fascinating period of Japanese history in which the Dutch played such a singular role. At the same time, the serious scholar wil obtain an easy key to the extremely rich holdings of the archive of the Deshima trading factory, which covers a shelf length of more than forty meters in the National Archives in the Netherlands, but which has been only rarely utilized by historians, Japanologists or other scholars. In the 1740s, the Dutch East India Company (VOC) was in many ways at the height of its power. The second half of the 18th century saw the decline of the Company from being the high and mighty - and only - trading company which covered from its base in Batavia (Jakarta) all of Asia with a network that stretched from Basra in Persia to Nagasaki in Japan, to becoming a mere shadow of its former self with only a tenous hold on a few possessions in the Indonesian archipelago. By the end of the century, it had lost its establishments in South Africa, India and Ceylon to the British, and its flleet was gone. However, as a trading company, it was dead, but as a proto-colonial producer it was actually doing quite well. The basis of the present text are the Deshima Dagregisters: their original tables of contents , Vol. VII (1740-1760), Vol. VIII (1760-1780), Vol. IX (1780-1790), Vol. X (1790-1800) published in the Intercontinenta Series Nos. 18 (1993), 19 (1995), 20 (1996), and 21 (1997) by the Institute for the History of European Expansion at Leiden University. Scientific Publications of the Japan-Netherlands Institute No. 21. Published by the Japan-Netherlands Institute, Tokyo 2004 (original ISBN 4930921066).

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations -- Contents -- Foreword -- Editorial Note -- Introduction -- Diary kept by Opperhoofd Jacob van der Waeijen 1740-1741 -- Diary kept by Opperhoofd Thomas van Rhee 1741-1742 -- Diary kept by Opperhoofd Jacob van der Waeijen 1742-1743 -- Diary kept by Opperhoofd David Brouwer 1743-1744 -- Diary kept by Opperhoofd Jacob van der Waeijen 1744-1745 -- Diary kept by Opperhoofd Jan Louis de Win 1745-1746 -- Diary kept by Opperhoofd Jacob Balde 1746-1747 -- Diary kept by Opperhoofd Jan Louis de Win 1747-1748 -- Diary kept by Opperhoofd Jacob Balde 1748-1749 -- Diary kept by Opperhoofd Hendrik van Homoed 1749-1750 -- Diary kept by Opperhoofd Abraham van Suchtelen 1750-1751 -- Diary kept by Opperhoofd Hendrik van Homoed 1751-1752 -- Diary kept by Opperhoofd David Boelen 1752-1753 -- Diary kept by Opperhoofd Hendrik van Homoed 1753-1754 -- Diary kept by Opperhoofd David Boelen 1754-1755 -- Diary kept by Opperhoofd Herbert Vermeulen 1755-1756 -- Diary kept by Opperhoofd David Boelen 1756-1757 -- Diary kept by Opperhoofd Herbert Vermeulen 1757-1758 -- Diary kept by Opperhoofd Johannes Reijnouts 1758-1759 -- Diary kept by Opperhoofd Herbert Vermeulen 1759 (August-November) -- Diary kept by Opperhoofd Johannes Reijnouts 1759-1760 -- Diary kept by Opperhoofd Marten Huijsvoorn 1760-1761 -- Diary kept by Opperhoofd Johannes Reijnouts 1761-1762 -- Diary kept by Opperhoofd Fredrik Willem Wineke 1762-1763 -- Diary kept by Opperhoofd Jan Crans 1763-1764 -- Diary kept by Opperhoofd Fredrik Willem Wineke 1764-1765 -- Diary kept by Opperhoofd Jan Crans 1765-1766 -- Diary kept by Opperhoofd Herman Christiaan Kastens 1766-1767 -- Diary kept by Opperhoofd Jan Crans 1767-1768 -- Diary kept by Opperhoofd Jan Crans 1768-1769 -- Diary kept by Opperhoofd Olphert Elias 1769-1770 -- Diary kept by Opperhoofd Daniel Armenault 1770-1771 -- Diary kept by Opperhoofd Arend Willem Feith 1771-1772 -- Diary kept by Opperhoofd Daniel Armenault 1772-1773 -- Diary kept by Opperhoofd Arend Willem Feith 1773-1774 -- Diary kept by Opperhoofd Daniel Armenault 1774-1775 -- Diary kept by Opperhoofd Arend Willem Feith 1775-1776 -- Diary kept by Opperhoofd Hendrik Godfried Duurkoop 1776-1777.

Diary kept by Opperhoofd Arend Willem Feith 1777-1778 -- Diary kept by Opperhoofd Arend Willem Feith 1778-1779 -- Diary kept by Opperhoofd Isaac Titsingh 1779-1780 -- Diary kept by Opperhoofd Arend Willem Feith 1780-1781 -- Diary kept by Opperhoofd Isaac Titsingh 1781-1782 -- Diary kept by Opperhoofd Isaac Titsingh 1782-1783 -- Diary kept by Opperhoofd Hendrik Casper Romberg 1783-1784 -- Diary kept by Opperhoofd Isaac Titsingh 1784 (August-November) -- Diary kept by Opperhoofd Hendrik Casper Romberg 1784-1785 -- Diary kept by Opperhoofd Johan Fredrik Baron van Reede tot de Parkeler 1785-1786 -- Diary kept by Opperhoofd Hendrik Casper Romberg 1786-1787 -- Diary kept by Opperhoofd Johan Fredrik Baron van Reede tot de Parkeler 1778-1788 -- Diary kept by Opperhoofd Hendrik Casper Romberg 1788-1789 -- Diary kept by Opperhoofd Johan Fredrik Baron van Reede tot de Parkeler 1789 (August-November) -- Diary kept by Opperhoofd Hendrik Casper Romberg 1789-1790 -- Diary kept by Opperhoofd Petrus Theodorus Chassé 1790-1791 -- Diary kept by Opperhoofd Petrus Theodorus Chassé 1791-1792 -- Diary kept by Opperhoofd Gijsbert Hemmij 1792-1793 -- Diary kept by Opperhoofd Gijsbert Hemmij 1793-1794 -- Diary kept by Opperhoofd Gijsbert Hemmij 1794-1795 -- Diary kept by Opperhoofd Gijsbert Hemmij 1795-1796 -- Diary kept by Opperhoofd Gijsbert Hemmij 1796-1797 -- Diary kept by Bookkeeper / Scribe Leopold Willem Ras 1798 (May-November) -- Diary kept by Scribe Leopold Willem Ras 1798-1799 -- Diary kept by Merchant Leopold Willem Ras 1799-1800 -- Diary kept by Opperhoofd Willem Wardenaar 1800 (July-November) -- Appendix 1: Secret Diary kept by Opperhoofd Isaac Titsingh 1782-1783 -- Appendix 2: Private Notes kept by [Deputy Jean Baptist Ricard] 1794 (April-July) -- Appendix 3: Private Notes Kept by [Assistant Johannes Jacobus Smits] 1794 (April-July) -- Appendix 4: Secret Diary kept by Opperhoofd Willem Wardenaar 1800 (July/November) -- Sources -- Glossary -- Index of Ship's Names -- Index of Geographical Names -- Index of Non-Japanese Names -- Index of Japanese Names -- Subject Index.