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*''Japanese:'' 白浜剣鬼<!--Not sure on these kanji. Please help.--> (''Shirahama Kenki'') | *''Japanese:'' 白浜剣鬼<!--Not sure on these kanji. Please help.--> (''Shirahama Kenki'') | ||
*''Vietnamese: Bạch Tần Hiển Quý''<ref>[http://www.ie.netnam.vn/tcnckt/2002/03/02.html Thương mại Việt Nam - Nhật Bản thế kỷ XVI-XVII], Accessed 12 June 2007.</ref> | *''Vietnamese: Bạch Tần Hiển Quý''<ref>[http://www.ie.netnam.vn/tcnckt/2002/03/02.html Thương mại Việt Nam - Nhật Bản thế kỷ XVI-XVII], Accessed 12 June 2007.</ref> | ||
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Shirahama Kenki was a Japanese pirate/raider (''[[wako|wakô]]'') of the late 16th-early 17th centuries, the first Japanese with whom the southern Vietnamese kingdom of the Nguyen lords made contact. | Shirahama Kenki was a Japanese pirate/raider (''[[wako|wakô]]'') of the late 16th-early 17th centuries, the first Japanese with whom the southern Vietnamese kingdom of the Nguyen lords made contact. | ||
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He first arrived on the Vietnamese coast in [[1585]], with five ships, and began to engage in pirate raids and coastal assaults. He was eventually driven off by a fleet of at least ten ships led by the sixth son of Lord Nguyen Hoang; two of the pirate ships were destroyed, and Shirahama fled. It is said that he was mistaken for a Westerner by the Vietnamese he encountered at the time<ref>Li, Tana. pp60-61.</ref>. | He first arrived on the Vietnamese coast in [[1585]], with five ships, and began to engage in pirate raids and coastal assaults. He was eventually driven off by a fleet of at least ten ships led by the sixth son of Lord Nguyen Hoang; two of the pirate ships were destroyed, and Shirahama fled. It is said that he was mistaken for a Westerner by the Vietnamese he encountered at the time<ref>Li, Tana. pp60-61.</ref>. | ||
| − | Fourteen years later, in [[1599]], Shirahama's craft crashed near the Vietnamese port of Thuan An. The local magistrate, correctly believing him some variety of pirate or brigand, attacked Shirahama and was killed. Shirahama was then imprisoned, and Nguyen Hoang sent a missive to [[Tokugawa Ieyasu]] | + | Fourteen years later, in [[1599]], Shirahama's craft crashed near the Vietnamese port of Thuan An. The local magistrate, correctly believing him some variety of pirate or brigand, attacked Shirahama and was killed. Shirahama was then imprisoned, and [[Nguyen Hoang]] sent a missive to [[Tokugawa Ieyasu]] asking how to deal with Japanese sailors in the future. This was the first official contact between the two governments, and marked the beginning of a friendly relationship lasting several decades<ref>Li, Tana. pp60-61.</ref>. |
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Latest revision as of 23:15, 4 October 2015
- Japanese: 白浜剣鬼 (Shirahama Kenki)
- Vietnamese: Bạch Tần Hiển Quý[1]
Shirahama Kenki was a Japanese pirate/raider (wakô) of the late 16th-early 17th centuries, the first Japanese with whom the southern Vietnamese kingdom of the Nguyen lords made contact.
He first arrived on the Vietnamese coast in 1585, with five ships, and began to engage in pirate raids and coastal assaults. He was eventually driven off by a fleet of at least ten ships led by the sixth son of Lord Nguyen Hoang; two of the pirate ships were destroyed, and Shirahama fled. It is said that he was mistaken for a Westerner by the Vietnamese he encountered at the time[2].
Fourteen years later, in 1599, Shirahama's craft crashed near the Vietnamese port of Thuan An. The local magistrate, correctly believing him some variety of pirate or brigand, attacked Shirahama and was killed. Shirahama was then imprisoned, and Nguyen Hoang sent a missive to Tokugawa Ieyasu asking how to deal with Japanese sailors in the future. This was the first official contact between the two governments, and marked the beginning of a friendly relationship lasting several decades[3].
Notes
- ↑ Thương mại Việt Nam - Nhật Bản thế kỷ XVI-XVII, Accessed 12 June 2007.
- ↑ Li, Tana. pp60-61.
- ↑ Li, Tana. pp60-61.
References
This article was written by User:LordAmeth and contributed to both S-A and Wikipedia; the author gives permission for his work to be used in this way.
- Li, Tana. Nguyen Cochinchina: Southern Vietnam in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1998.
