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The Dream of Christian Nagasaki: World Trade and the Clash of Cultures, 1560–1640 by Reinier H. Hesselink (review)

The Dream of Christian Nagasaki: World Trade and the Clash of Cultures, 1560–1640 by Reinier H.... Review Section 165 just the willing and obliging victims of offi cials seeking extraordinary com- pensation or favors. Their gifts to Wakabayashi Ichizaemon, who served as Nagasaki commissioner from 1783 to 1785, were intended to infl uence trade policy and fell little short of bribery. Kaneko Hiraku shows how focusing on gifts can help us to detect politi- cal machinations that may otherwise remain hidden from view. He reveals what seems to have been late-medieval collusion between the Muromachi shogunate and Ko ¯ fukuji temple, the then primary landlord in Yamato Prov- ince. Beginning with the third shogun, Ashikaga Yoshimitsu (1358–1408), several Muromachi shoguns paid occasional visits to Nara, the southern capital. Kaneko zooms in on the 1429 visit by Ashikaga Yoshinori (1394– 1441) and the 1465 excursion of Ashikaga Yoshimasa (1436–90). On the face of it, nothing too remarkable happened. Prior to his visit the shogun would order Ko ¯ fukuji to make preparations. A pivotal task was to raise the necessary funds to cover the costs of the elaborate visits. The temple did this by raising incidental taxes, which were shouldered by local tax-paying inhabitants. So far nothing too remarkable. The interesting twist came once the dust http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png The Journal of Japanese Studies Society for Japanese Studies

The Dream of Christian Nagasaki: World Trade and the Clash of Cultures, 1560–1640 by Reinier H. Hesselink (review)

Turnbull, Stephen
The Journal of Japanese Studies , Volume 46 (1) – Jan 28, 2020
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Review Section 165 just the willing and obliging victims of offi cials seeking extraordinary com- pensation or favors. Their gifts to Wakabayashi Ichizaemon, who served as Nagasaki commissioner from 1783 to 1785, were intended to infl uence trade policy and fell little short of bribery. Kaneko Hiraku shows how focusing on gifts can help us to detect politi- cal machinations that may otherwise remain hidden from view. He reveals what seems to have been late-medieval collusion between the Muromachi shogunate and Ko ¯ fukuji temple, the then primary landlord in Yamato Prov- ince. Beginning with the third shogun, Ashikaga Yoshimitsu (1358–1408), several Muromachi shoguns paid occasional visits to Nara, the southern capital. Kaneko zooms in on the 1429 visit by Ashikaga Yoshinori (1394– 1441) and the 1465 excursion of Ashikaga Yoshimasa (1436–90). On the face of it, nothing too remarkable happened. Prior to his visit the shogun would order Ko ¯ fukuji to make preparations. A pivotal task was to raise the necessary funds to cover the costs of the elaborate visits. The temple did this by raising incidental taxes, which were shouldered by local tax-paying inhabitants. So far nothing too remarkable. The interesting twist came once the dust

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