2019 Fiscal Year Research-status Report
The first Asian/Japanese communities in Europe and the Americas in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
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18K00906
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| Research Institution | Tokyo University of Foreign Studies |
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Principal Investigator |
ロッシャデソウザ ルシオマヌエル 東京外国語大学, 世界言語社会教育センター, 准教授 (70735836)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2018-04-01 – 2021-03-31
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| Keywords | Japanese Slavery / Asian Migration / Jewish Diaspora |
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| Outline of Annual Research Achievements |
During this year I analyzed many unknown parish records in Lisbon, Madrid, Rome (Europe), Goa (India) and Mexico City (Mexico). These records (parish records) were particularly important for my research, as they contain new information about all the inhabitants, regardless of their country of origin. Seventeen unknown Japanese figures were identified in Goa and in Lisbon.Simultaneously, I started to read the inquisitorial archives, also finding several Japanese immigrants living in Portuguese India during the 16th and 17th centuries.
I also continued my research on the judeao-converso commercial networks in Asia (Japan-China-Philippines).
Part of the results where published in:
Lucio de Sousa, “Judaeo-converso merchants in the private trade between Macao and Manila in the Early Modern Period” in Journal of Iberian and Latin American Economic History, Cambridge University Press: 2019.
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| Current Status of Research Progress |
Current Status of Research Progress
2: Research has progressed on the whole more than it was originally planned.
Reason
During the current period of research, I would wish to be able to answer the following questions: who were the Japanese living in Europe and the Americas (their place of origin, how they arrived in Europe and the Americas, their social status); how were their family structures (were marriages held between Japanese or were they mixed marriages, did they have offspring), and how were the
social networks in which they circulated.
I am using all that information to be part of a future data-base on Asian Diasporas during the 16th and 17th centuries.
I'm also currently studying the Jewish Diaspora in Japan.
Regarding this last topic, my main interest is the Jewish presence in Nagasaki between 1580-1614.
I intend to have the results of the current research published in a new book with Palgrave Studies in Comparative Global History.
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| Strategy for Future Research Activity |
I plan to analyze many unknown new records in America (Mexico and Peru)and India (Goa, Kochi). Mainly because of the privileged trade relationship that existed between Japan and the Iberian monarchies in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, these records (parish and inquisitorial records) are particularly important, as they contain new information about all the inhabitants, regardless of their country of origin. In this research, I will use unpublished manuscripts. The results will be part of a new data-base on Asian Diasporas during the 16th and 17th centuries.
I also plan to continue my study on the Jewish presence in Japan during the 16th and 17th centuries.
Simultaneously, I will continue my research on the Jewish merchants settled in Japan during the 16th and 17 centuries. Regarding this second topic, I'm planning to reconstruct the size of these communities, their leaders, to gain a full understanding of their commercial and social networks in Nagasaki.
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| Causes of Carryover |
Research and publication of book and papers on the Japanese Diaspora
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