The road to Japan
Subtitle: social and economic aspects of early European-Japanese contacts
By: Josef Kreiner (ed.).
Contributors: Kreiner, Josef.
Series: JapanArchiv -- Bd. 6
Publisher: Bier's Verlagsanstalt
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Bonn
Language: eng
Number of pages: 208
Subjects: Europe -- Foreign economic relations -- Japan -- Congresses.; Japan -- Foreign economic relations -- Europe -- Congresses.; Europe -- Economic conditions -- Congresses.; Europe -- Social conditions -- Congresses.; Japan -- Economic conditions -- To 1868 -- Congresses.; Japan -- Social conditions -- 1600-1868 -- Congresses.
Genres: Congresses.
Notes: Papers from an international symposium held June 26-27, 2000 in Bonn, Germany.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: value: Japan's "Long 16th Century" / Josef Kreiner; value: The Spanish-Dutch War, Japanese trade, and world politics / Reinhard Wendt; value: Gold, silver, and copper in the European economies and their external trade relations from the end of the 15th to the end of the 16th century / Ekkehard Westermann; value: Bound for Asia / Roelof van Gelder; value: The Dutch timber trade in the Rhineland during the 17th and 18th centuries / Dietrich Ebeling; value: Timber from the Rhine area / Leendert van Prooije; value: Those headstrong people! Dutch dealings with Japanese lacquerers / Cynthia Viallé; value: German clay pipes on the world market / Martin Kügler and Ralf Kluttig-Altmann; value: A note on clay pipes in Japan in the Edo period / Anneli Wallentowitz.