Hirado, Nagasaki

Hirado (Japanese平 戸 市, -shi) is a city in Nagasaki Prefecture. It is located on the same island that is now connected to Kyushu by a bridge.

History

In the Sengoku and early Edo period Hirado was an important foreign trade location, especially with the China of the Ming Dynasty. After the founder of the Tokugawa Shogunate, Tokugawa Ieyasu had the Dutch in 1609 granted approval to trade in Japan, established the Dutch East India Company (VOC ) on Hirado its first trading office ( trading post ) in Japan. 1612 taught Richard Cocks as representative of the English East India Company near an English trading post, which was in 1623 but abandoned for economic reasons. From local Princely House Matsuura only loosely controlled, enjoyed the Dutch in Hirado ( " Firando " ) freedom of movement, but were in 1639 by the Japanese government ( Tokugawa shogunate ) forced to move to the island of Dejima in Nagasaki Bay.

Head of the VOC trading post in Hirado:

  • Jacques Specx: September 20, 1609 - August 28, 1612
  • Hendrick Brouwer: August 28, 1612 - August 6, 1614
  • Jacques Specx: August 6, 1614 - October 29, 1621
  • Leonardt Camps: October 29, 1621 - November 21, 1623
  • Cornelis van Neyenrode: November 21. 1623-1631
  • Cornelis van Neyenrode: 1631 - January 31, 1633
  • Pieter van Sante, Pieter van Santen: 31 January 1633 - September 6, 1633
  • Nicolaes Couckebacker, also Nicolaas Koeckebakker: September 6, 1633 to 1639
  • François Caron: February 3, 1639 - February 13, 1641

By the end of the Edo period Hirado Hirado served as the seat of the fief. The Hirado Castle is now a symbol of the island. Here, as in the Matsuura Museum to see the more than two centuries accumulated treasures of the house Matsuura.

Traffic

  • Street: National Road 204: after Karatsu Sasebo and
  • National Road 383: after Imari and Sasebo

Famous personalities from Hirado

  • Koxinga, also Coxinga (1624-1662), son of a Chinese man and a Japanese woman, 1662, the Dutch fleet sales as a leader of the Southern Ming from Taiwan.
  • Inagaki Manjiro (1861-1908), diplomat

Adjacent Cities and Towns

  • Matsuura
  • Sasebo

Gallery

Hall of Hirado

Grave of the English helmsman William Adams (1564-1620), who was stranded in 1600 with the Dutch ship De Liefde in eastern Kyushu and heralding the introduction of the Dutch- Japanese relations

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