Early Japanese Trade, Administration and Interactions with the West

Louis M. Cullen is professor emeritus of modern Irish history, Trinity College, Dublin, and was a visiting scholar in 2002-3 in the International Research Centre in Japanese Studies in Kyoto. He is the author of A History of Japan 1582-1941: Internal and External Worlds (Cambridge University Press, 2003). His main research interest has been in international trade including a major work Anglo-Irish Trade 1660-1800 in 1968 and books on the French brandy trade in 1998 and 2002 (French translations in 2002 and 2006). His work in the last decade in Japanese history has concerned administration, archives and statistics for both populatiom and trade, on which he has published papers in the Japan Review (International Research Centre in Japanese Studies).

• Foreword by Shunsuke Katsuta Acknowledgements & Transliteration of Japanese Introduction: The Route to Japanese Trade Part I: Interactions –Ancient and Modern 1. Sakoku, Tokugawa Policy, and the interpretation of Japanese history 2. Knowledge and Use of Japanese by the Dutch on Dejima Island, Nagasaki 3. Review of James W. White’s Ikki: Social Conflict and Political Protest in Early Modern Japan 4. Gulliver in Japan: Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels 5. Japan in a Changing Asia: Achievements and Opportunities Missed Part II: Statistical Resources of and Interactions with Tokugawa Japan 6. Population: Tokugawa Population: The Archival Issues 7. Coastal Trade: Statistics of Tokugawa Coastal Trade and Bakumatsu and Early Meiji Foreign Trade. Part 1: Coastal Trade in Tokugawa Times 8. Post-1859 Foreign Trade: Statistics of Tokugawa Coastal Trade and Bakumatsu and Early Meiji Foreign Trade. Part 2: Trade in Bakumatsu and Early Meiji Times. 9. Archives: Japanese Archives: Sources for the Study of Tokugawa Administration and Japanese History 10. The Foreign Trade of Nagasaki: The Nagasaki Trade of the Tokugawa Era: Archives, Statistics and Management Notes Glossary Index