The Seventeenth-Century Tang Ship Trade in the Revised Edition of “An Investigation of Trade between China and the Barbarians”

Abstract

Nishikawa Joken's The Revised Edition of “An Investigation of Trade between China and the Barbarians” provides a detailed overview of trade in Nagasaki, Japan under the lock-up system in the 17th century. The document contains a large number of China-related records, from which a side view of Chinese overseas trade during this period can be obtained. Not only does the document clearly list the local products of China's inland provinces, but it also shows that Chinese merchants and merchant ships played an important role in Japan's trade with East and Southeast Asia.