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[[File:Jan-joosten.jpg|right|thumb|320px|Commemorative or memorial plaque for Jan Joosten, in the Yaesu neighborhood of Tokyo]]

[[File:Jan-joosten.jpg|right|thumb|320px|Commemorative or memorial plaque for Jan Joosten, in the Yaesu neighborhood of Tokyo]]

Jan Joosten van Lodensteiyn was an agent of the [[Dutch East India Company]] (VOC), who first arrived in Japan in [[1600]] aboard the ''[[Liefde]]''; he and his shipmates were the first Dutchmen (and the first Englishman, [[William Adams]]) to ever travel to Japan.

Jan Joosten van Lodensteiyn was an agent of the [[Dutch East India Company]] (VOC), who first arrived in Japan in [[1600]] aboard the ''[[Liefde]]''; he and his shipmates were the first Dutchmen (and the first Englishman, [[William Adams]]) to ever travel to Japan.

The ''Liefde'' left Europe alongside four other ships, on a mission to challenge the Iberian monopoly in Japanese trade. By the time they arrived in Japan on 1600/3/7, however, the ''Liefde'' was the only ship left. Joosten and Adams were among 21 survivors of what was originally a 110-man crew. Most of the others were kept in detention for several months, while Joosten and Adams were granted an audience with [[Tokugawa Ieyasu]] on 3/29 (or perhaps 4/10). Ieyasu later took both men into his service, granting Joosten a 100 ''[[koku]]'' fief near [[Nagasaki]], and a mansion outside of the Wada Kuramon gate in [[Edo]]. The neighborhood near his mansion came to be known as Yaesu, after a Japanese rendering of the name "Joosten."

The ''Liefde'' left Europe alongside four other ships, on a mission to challenge the Iberian monopoly in Japanese trade. By the time they arrived in Japan on 1600/3/7, however, the ''Liefde'' was the only ship left. Joosten and Adams were among 21 survivors of what was originally a 110-man crew. Most of the others were kept in detention for several months, while Joosten and Adams were granted an audience with [[Tokugawa Ieyasu]] on 3/29 (or perhaps 4/10). Ieyasu later took both men into his service, employing Joosten as an interpreter and granting him a 100 ''[[koku]]'' fief near [[Nagasaki]], and a mansion outside of the Wada Kuramon gate in the Hibiya area of [[Edo]]. Joosten was known in Japanese as Yayôsu, and in connection with this, the area near his mansion came to be known as Yaesu.

Once the VOC formally established a factory in Japan in [[1609]], Joosten began working more actively for them, while also making private investments in the Southeast Asia trade. Once the [[British East India Company]] established its Japanese factory in [[1613]], Joosten began using his influence with Ieyasu to push for greater Dutch privileges (over the English), to the chagrin of [[Richard Cocks]], head of the British factory. Even so, Cocks is known to have sent gifts to Joosten's wife and daughter in [[1616]]. Little is known about Joosten's Japanese wife, or about his daughter, except that she was old enough by [[1622]] to get married herself.

Once the VOC formally established a factory in Japan in [[1609]], Joosten began working more actively for them, while also being granted a [[shuinsen|red seal license]] and engaging himself in the Southeast Asia trade. Once the [[British East India Company]] established its Japanese factory in [[1613]], Joosten began using his influence with Ieyasu to push for greater Dutch privileges (over the English), to the chagrin of [[Richard Cocks]], head of the British factory. Even so, Cocks is known to have sent gifts to Joosten's wife and daughter in [[1616]]. Little is known about Joosten's Japanese wife, or about his daughter, except that she was old enough by [[1622]] to get married herself.

 

In the early 1620s, Joosten attempted to return home to the Netherlands, traveling first to the Dutch East India Company settlement at [[Batavia]]. Unable to arrange for passage back to Europe, Joosten decided to return to Japan; however, his ship encountered trouble, and Joosten did not survive.

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==References==

==References==

*Gary Leupp, ''Interracial Intimacy in Japan: Western Men and Japanese Women, 1543-1900'', A&C Black (2003), 59.

*Gary Leupp, ''Interracial Intimacy in Japan: Western Men and Japanese Women, 1543-1900'', A&C Black (2003), 59.

*Explanatory plaque on Jan Joosten bust in Yaesu underground shopping arcade.[https://www.flickr.com/photos/toranosuke/15297762194/sizes/h/]

*Explanatory plaques on Jan Joosten bust in Yaesu underground shopping arcade.[https://www.flickr.com/photos/toranosuke/15297762194/sizes/h/][https://www.flickr.com/photos/toranosuke/15918046041/sizes/h/]

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