In the 17th and 18th centuries, the Dutch were arguably the most economically wealthy and scientifically advanced of all European nations, which put them in a privileged position to transfer Western knowledge to Japan.
17和18世紀，荷蘭可說是歐洲在經濟上最富裕、科學最為進步的國家，讓他們有著特權地位去將西方知識傳至日本。