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Later Edo period histories written in Satsuma misleadingly framed Sôan’s mission as having been a success, writing that he “went to the capital, Beijing, to see the emperor, and the emperor was very glad to see him and give him a feast. Then the Ming court promised trade with Satsuma.” This, though not strictly factual, helped secure, or enhance, Satsuma's impression of its own importance within the narrative of the formation and success of the [[Tokugawa shogunate]].
Later Edo period histories written in Satsuma misleadingly framed Sôan’s mission as having been a success, writing that he “went to the capital, Beijing, to see the emperor, and the emperor was very glad to see him and give him a feast. Then the Ming court promised trade with Satsuma.” This, though not strictly factual, helped secure, or enhance, Satsuma's impression of its own importance within the narrative of the formation and success of the [[Tokugawa shogunate]].
Shimazu accounts indicate that the Ming, in fact, did agree to send two trading ships to Satsuma every year from then on. However, according to those same accounts, the first two ships sent in [[1601]] ran afoul of pirates near [[Ioshima|Iôshima]] or [[Io Torishima|Iô Torishima]], and this marked the end for the short-lived revival of Ming-Japan trade at that time (if there was indeed any agreement to a revival to begin with).<ref>Gregory Smits, ''Maritime Ryukyu'', University of Hawaii Press (2019), 217.</ref>
==References==
==References==
*[[Watanabe Miki]]. "An International Maritime Trader - Torihara Sôan: The Agent for Tokugawa Ieyasu's First Negotiations with Ming China, 1600." in Angela Schottenhammer (ed.) ''The East Asian Mediterranean: Maritime Crossroads of Culture, Commerce and Human Migration''. Harrassowitz-Verlag, 2009. pp169-176.
*[[Watanabe Miki]]. "An International Maritime Trader - Torihara Sôan: The Agent for Tokugawa Ieyasu's First Negotiations with Ming China, 1600." in Angela Schottenhammer (ed.) ''The East Asian Mediterranean: Maritime Crossroads of Culture, Commerce and Human Migration''. Harrassowitz-Verlag, 2009. pp169-176.
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