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Giles Milton Samoerai William
Europese avonturen in het Japan van de shogun
Beschrijving van de activiteiten van de Engelse East India Company in het Verre Oosten, met veel aandacht voor haar factorij op het Japanse eiland Hirado waar de hulp van de in Japan wonende Engelsman William Adams buitengewoon nuttig was.
Non-fictie
Nederlands | 281 pagina's | Mets & Schilt, Amsterdam | 2008
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René P. Bersma Titia
the first Western woman in Japan
In 1817 Jan Cock Blomhoff travelled to Japan and brought with him his young wife Titia and his son. Never before did a Western woman set foot on Japanese soil and the Japanese were astonished. Author and distant relative of Titia René Bersma relates the exceptional and dramatic story of this woman who sails her own course, against all rules of precedent which governed Japanese society at that time, but in the end is forced to leave the country. Shortly after her arrival back in Holland she dies...
Non-fictie
Engels | 24 pagina's | Hotei Publishing, Amsterdam | 2002
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