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SUMMARY:Pacific Shoguns: Japan’s Attempt to Open the Pacific\, 1600-1625
  - Dr Joshua Batts\, Research Associate\, Faculty of Asian and Middle East
 ern Studies
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DTEND:20191029T140000Z
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CONTACT:Dr Nanna K L Kaalund
DESCRIPTION:In 1616\, a Japanese galleon glided into Acapulco. It was the 
 third time a Japanese vessel had done so that decade\, flummoxing Spanish 
 officialdom in Manila\, Mexico City\, and Madrid. It turned out to be the 
 last\; the final act in Tokugawa Japan’s two-decade effort to puncture t
 he Spanish monopoly on trans-Pacific commerce. The Spanish Empire rebuffed
  this effort\, successfully defending its commercial and navigational prer
 ogative. But the Japanese repaid in kind\, and within a decade Spaniards w
 ere no longer permitted in Japan. In this talk\, I explore how this little
 -known attempt at outreach helps redefine our idea of what constitutes dip
 lomacy and how it deepens our understanding of the frictions inherent to e
 arly modern encounters.
LOCATION:The Richard King Room\, Darwin College
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