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26. For a good overview of both the English and Dutch presence in Japan, see the following works: Grant Goodman, The Dutch Impact on Japan, 1640–1853 (Leiden, the Netherlands: E. J. Brill, 1967); Derek Massarella, A World Elsewhere: Europe's Encounter with Japan in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1990); Tony Farrington, The English Factory in Japan (London: British Library, 1991); Yao Keisuke, Kinsei Oranda B
eki to Sakoku (Tokyo: Yoshikawa K
bunkan, 1998); and Suzuki Yasuko, Kinsei Nichi-Ran B
eki-shi no Kenky
(Tokyo: Shibunkaku, 2004).




27. John Saris was especially critical of Adams's relationship with the Dutch, as well as his intimacy with the Japanese; Adams went so far as to prefer Japanese customs to those of his countrymen. See Ernest Satow, ed., The Voyage of Captain John Saris (London: Hakluyt Society, Second Series, 1967), 109.
28. For an excellent account of Dutch embassies to the emperor of China, see John Wills, Embassies and Illusions: Dutch and Portuguese Envoys to Kang-hsi (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1984).
29. Kat
Eiichi, “Unification and Adaptation, the Early Shogunate and Dutch Trade Policies,” in Companies and Trade: Essays on Overseas Trading Companies During the Ancién Regime, eds. Leonard Blussé and Femme Gaastra (Leiden, the Netherlands: Leiden University Press, 1981), 220–221.

30. The Dutch had a long history of trying to establish trade with the Chinese at Macao. In 1601 they attempted to land at the base, only to be violently repulsed by the Portuguese. Three years later, another Dutch vessel was driven from Macao by the Portuguese, and in 1614 Jan Pieterzoon Coen, governor general of the VOC, proposed yet another attack on Macao. Therefore, the failed attempt of 1622 was one in a long line of attempts to wrest control of Macao away from the Portuguese. See Deng Kaison, “Dispute for Macao Trade,” in Mariners, Merchants, and Oceans: Studies in Maritime History, ed. K. S. Mathew (Delhi: Manohar Publications, 1995), 164–167.
31. For a good overview of the Dutch presence on Taiwan, see Tonio Andrade, How Taiwan Became Chinese: Dutch, Spanish, and Han Colonization in the Seventeenth Century (New York: Columbia University Press, 2007).
32. Charles Boxer, “The Rise and Fall of Nicholas Iquan (Cheng Chi-lung),” T’ien Hsia Monthly 11 (1941): 401–439.
33. Satow, Voyage of Captain John Saris, 201.
34. Ibid., 142.