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The ''Kankô Maru'', originally known as ''Soembing'', was a Dutch ship sent by the King of the Netherlands to [[Nagasaki]] in [[1854]] and again in [[1855]], as part of arrangements by [[VOC]] factor [[Jan Hendrik Donker Curtius]] to provide naval and military training to [[Tokugawa shogunate]] troops as part of a broader set of treaty agreements.

The ''Kankô Maru'', originally known as ''Soembing'', was a Dutch ship sent by the King of the Netherlands to [[Nagasaki]] in [[1854]] and again in [[1855]], as part of arrangements by [[VOC]] factor [[Jan Hendrik Donker Curtius]] to provide naval and military training to [[Tokugawa shogunate]] troops as part of a broader set of treaty agreements.

The shogunate expressed to Curtius in [[1853]] interest in constructing a modern Japanese navy. Curtius corresponded with the Netherlands, and the ''Soembing'' arrived at Nagasaki the following summer captained by a Captain Fabius. There, its crew engaged in some limited training exercises. In July 1855, the ''Soembing'' returned to Nagasaki along with a ship called the ''[[Gedeh]]''. Curtius announced that he had been ordered by King Willem III to present the ''Soembing'' as a gift to the shogunate. along with a portrait of the king, and to have its crew train some number of Japanese sailors more extensively in the operation of the vessel.<ref>Ishin Shiryô Kôyô 維新史料綱要, vol 2 (1937), 78.</ref>

The shogunate expressed to Curtius in [[1853]] interest in constructing a modern Japanese navy. Curtius corresponded with the Netherlands, and the ''Soembing'' arrived at Nagasaki the following summer captained by a Captain Fabius. There, its crew engaged in some limited training exercises. In July 1855, the ''Soembing'' returned to Nagasaki along with a ship called the ''[[Gedeh]]''. Curtius announced that he had been ordered by King Willem III to present the ''Soembing'' as a gift to the shogunate. along with a portrait of the king, and to have its crew train some number of Japanese sailors more extensively in the operation of the vessel.<ref>Ishin Shiryô Kôyô 維新史料綱要, vol 2 (1937), 78.</ref> The ship was formally handed over to Nagasaki-based shogunate officials on 1855/8/25.<ref>Ishin Shiryô Kôyô 維新史料綱要, vol 2 (1937), 109.</ref>

Curtius made his formal proposal for a commercial treaty on September 7 (7/26), and by February the following year, the Dutch-Japanese [[Treaty of Peace and Amity (Dutch-Japan)|Treaty of Peace and Amity]] had been concluded.

Curtius made his formal proposal for a commercial treaty on September 7 (7/26), and by February the following year, the Dutch-Japanese [[Treaty of Peace and Amity (Dutch-Japan)|Treaty of Peace and Amity]] had been concluded.