Martha Chaiklin
Hosei University, Faculty of Economics, Department Member
- History, History of Science, International Relations, International Studies, Colonialism, Military History, and 17 moreImperialism, Empire, Maritime History, Dutch East India Company, Early Modern History, Ivory, Art History, Second World War, History of Science and Technology, 19th Century (History), Japanese Art, Meiji Japan, Japonisme, Japanese History, Ivory Carving, World History, and Japanese Art Historyedit
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Great Power gunboat diplomacy brought a whole host of problems to Japan’s shores. The initial Kanagawa Treaty of 1854 was innocuous enough, merely allowing foreign ships to call at specified ports for supplies, but the commercial treaties... more
Great Power gunboat diplomacy brought a whole host of problems to Japan’s shores. The initial Kanagawa Treaty of 1854 was innocuous enough, merely allowing foreign ships to call at specified ports for supplies, but the commercial treaties hammered out by Townsend Harris and employed by other Western nations were another matter. These “unequal” treaties created disputes over property, jurisdictions, trade methods, and more than anything else, over money. Indeed, financial conflict, perhaps inevitable given Japan’s isolationist stance (sakoku) and its limited experience of foreign trade, was to be defining feature of its forced opening (kaikoku). In the common narrative of early modern Japan, these conflicts have been condensed into a single event: the Yokohama Gold Rush. This so-called gold rush has been portrayed as a story of the exploitation of a small, peace-loving Asian nation by the rapacious, imperialist West. A more nuanced, global look, however, tells a different story, a story which culminates in monetary revolution and regime change. Faced with the onset of international trade, Japan’s feudal tri-metallic monetary standard was found to be untenable and irrelevant, just as was the Tokugawa bakufu, the regime it had long supported.
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Mediated by Gifts is a collection of essays by top scholars on gifts, giving and the social and political forces that shaped these practices in medieval and early modern Japan. The international assemblage of authors provides new insights... more
Mediated by Gifts is a collection of essays by top scholars on gifts, giving and the social and political forces that shaped these practices in medieval and early modern Japan. The international assemblage of authors provides new insights into these deeply ingrained practices. The essays focus on topics such as shogunal visits to shrines and temples, exchanges between the imperial house and the shogun, a physician and his patients, the shogun, his vassals his and his ladies, the merchant class and the shogunal government, and between scholars and their cosmopolitan circle of contacts. This virtually unexplored view of Japanese history provides new tools to better elucidate both historical and modern Japan. Contributors are Lee Butler, Andrew Goble, Kaneko Hiraku, Laura Nenzi, Ozawa Emiko, Cecilia Segawa Siegle, and Margarita Winkel.
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When is a statue not a statue? When it is made of ivory. Then it is called an okimono, a term that suggests it is a curio but not art. The international interest in Japanese craft production after the opening of the ports in 1859 led to... more
When is a statue not a statue? When it is made of ivory. Then it is called an okimono, a term that suggests it is a curio but not art. The international interest in Japanese craft production after the opening of the ports in 1859 led to an explosion of ivory carving, everything from netsuke to entire tusks. Arguing that purchase by tourists does not inherently define the quality of an object, this book examines the efforts of the retailers and artisans to elevate the standard of the craft. Ivory carvers were not just bystanders to the changing demands of the art world, they were leaders in shaping the development of sculpture in Meiji Japan.
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Closed, isolated, sealed off -- these are all terms that have been used to describe Japan from the time the Portuguese were expelled in 1639 until commercial treaties permitting free trade were concluded in 1856. During this time, the... more
Closed, isolated, sealed off -- these are all terms that have been used to describe Japan from the time the Portuguese were expelled in 1639 until commercial treaties permitting free trade were concluded in 1856. During this time, the only Westerners permitted into Japan were the dozen or so Dutch East India Company servants, who were crowded onto tiny Deshima Island in the Bay of Nagasaki after 1641. These would not seem to be ideal conditions for cultural influence. But every year Company vessels transported hundreds of objects into Japan that reflected European taste and technological accomplishment.
This study examines how European material culture moved through the world of Early Modern Japan from port to end-user. Company trade, private trade, smuggling and gift-giving practices are elucidated through the extensive use of the archives of the Dutch East India Company (VOC) and its successors, personal archives and Japanese sources. Focused case studies on clocks and clockwork, glass and firearms show the ongoing influence of Europe on Japan, demolishing forever the idea that Japan was culturally isolated.
This study examines how European material culture moved through the world of Early Modern Japan from port to end-user. Company trade, private trade, smuggling and gift-giving practices are elucidated through the extensive use of the archives of the Dutch East India Company (VOC) and its successors, personal archives and Japanese sources. Focused case studies on clocks and clockwork, glass and firearms show the ongoing influence of Europe on Japan, demolishing forever the idea that Japan was culturally isolated.
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In relating the story of his life on the island of Deshima and in the port of Yokohama during the late 1850s, Dutch merchant C. T. Assendelft de Coningh provides both an unprecedented eyewitness account of daily life in the Japanese... more
In relating the story of his life on the island of Deshima and in the port of Yokohama during the late 1850s, Dutch merchant C. T. Assendelft de Coningh provides both an unprecedented eyewitness account of daily life in the Japanese treaty ports and a unique perspective on the economic, military, and political forces the Western imperial powers brought to bear on newly opened Japan.
A general Introduction provides essential historical and cultural background as well as a brief biography of De Coningh; substantial footnotes explain those terms, names, and cultural references that may be unfamiliar to modern readers. Thirteen illustrations are included, as are a chronology of events, a bibliography, and an index.
A general Introduction provides essential historical and cultural background as well as a brief biography of De Coningh; substantial footnotes explain those terms, names, and cultural references that may be unfamiliar to modern readers. Thirteen illustrations are included, as are a chronology of events, a bibliography, and an index.
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This richly illustrated volume offers the reader unique insight into the materiality of Asian cultures and the ways in which objects and practices can simultaneously embody and exhibit aesthetic and functional characteristics, as well as... more
This richly illustrated volume offers the reader unique insight into the materiality of Asian cultures and the ways in which objects and practices can simultaneously embody and exhibit aesthetic and functional characteristics, as well as everyday and spiritual aspirations. Though each chapter is representative, rather than exhaustive, in its portrayal of Asian material culture, together they clearly demonstrate that objects are entities that resonate with discourses of human relationships, personal and group identity formations, ethics, values, trade, and, above all, distinctive futures.
Full title: The Dutch and English East India Companies: Diplomacy, Trade and Violence in Early Modern Asia Volume Editors: Adam Clulow, Tristan Mostert Publisher: Amsterdam University Press Series: Asian History,... more
Full title: The Dutch and English East India Companies: Diplomacy, Trade and Violence in Early Modern Asia
Volume Editors: Adam Clulow, Tristan Mostert
Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
Series: Asian History, https://www.aup.nl/en/series/asian-history
The Dutch and English East India Companies were formidable organizations that were gifted with expansive powers that allowed them to conduct diplomacy, wage war and seize territorial possessions. But they did not move into an empty arena in which they were free to deploy these powers without resistance. Early modern Asia stood at the center of the global economy and was home to powerful states and sprawling commercial networks. The companies may have been global enterprises, but they operated in a globalized region in which they encountered a range of formidable competitors. This groundbreaking collection of essays explores the place of the Dutch and English East India Companies in Asia and the nature of their engagement with Asian rulers, officials, merchants, soldiers, and brokers. With contributions from some of the most innovative historians in the field, The Dutch and English East India Companies: Diplomacy, Trade and Violence in Early Modern Asia presents new ways to understand these organizations by focusing on their diplomatic, commercial, and military interactions with Asia.
Table of Contents: Introduction, The Companies in Asia, Adam Clulow and Tristan Mostert; Scramble for the spices: Makassar’s role in European and Asian Competition in the Eastern Archipelago up to 1616, Tristan Mostert; Diplomacy in a Provincial Setting: The East India Companies in Seventeenth-Century Bengal and Orissa, Guido van Meersbergen; Contacting Japan: East India Company Letter to the Shogun, Fuyuko Matsukata; Surat and Bombay: Ivory and Commercial Networks in Western India, Martha Chaiklin; Interdependence, Competition, and Contestation: The English and the Dutch East India Companies and Indian Merchants in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries, Ghulam Nadri; Empire by Treaty? The role of written documents in European overseas expansion, 1500-1800, Martine Julia Van Ittersum; ‘Great help from Japan’: The Dutch East India Company’s Experiment with Japanese Soldiers, Adam Clulow; The East India Company and the foundation of Persian Naval Power in the Gulf under Nader Shah, 1734-47, Peter Good; The Dutch East India Company in Global History: A Historiographical Reconnaissance, Tonio Andrade.
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Volume Editors: Adam Clulow, Tristan Mostert
Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
Series: Asian History, https://www.aup.nl/en/series/asian-history
The Dutch and English East India Companies were formidable organizations that were gifted with expansive powers that allowed them to conduct diplomacy, wage war and seize territorial possessions. But they did not move into an empty arena in which they were free to deploy these powers without resistance. Early modern Asia stood at the center of the global economy and was home to powerful states and sprawling commercial networks. The companies may have been global enterprises, but they operated in a globalized region in which they encountered a range of formidable competitors. This groundbreaking collection of essays explores the place of the Dutch and English East India Companies in Asia and the nature of their engagement with Asian rulers, officials, merchants, soldiers, and brokers. With contributions from some of the most innovative historians in the field, The Dutch and English East India Companies: Diplomacy, Trade and Violence in Early Modern Asia presents new ways to understand these organizations by focusing on their diplomatic, commercial, and military interactions with Asia.
Table of Contents: Introduction, The Companies in Asia, Adam Clulow and Tristan Mostert; Scramble for the spices: Makassar’s role in European and Asian Competition in the Eastern Archipelago up to 1616, Tristan Mostert; Diplomacy in a Provincial Setting: The East India Companies in Seventeenth-Century Bengal and Orissa, Guido van Meersbergen; Contacting Japan: East India Company Letter to the Shogun, Fuyuko Matsukata; Surat and Bombay: Ivory and Commercial Networks in Western India, Martha Chaiklin; Interdependence, Competition, and Contestation: The English and the Dutch East India Companies and Indian Merchants in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries, Ghulam Nadri; Empire by Treaty? The role of written documents in European overseas expansion, 1500-1800, Martine Julia Van Ittersum; ‘Great help from Japan’: The Dutch East India Company’s Experiment with Japanese Soldiers, Adam Clulow; The East India Company and the foundation of Persian Naval Power in the Gulf under Nader Shah, 1734-47, Peter Good; The Dutch East India Company in Global History: A Historiographical Reconnaissance, Tonio Andrade.
More info: https://www.aup.nl/…/the-dutch-and-english-east-india-compa… or http://shop.btpubservices.com/Title/9789462983298