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Tanaka Shōsuke
Japanese trader, diplomat, technician; early Japanese contact with the Americas · Japan · Historical Figures · Lived 1501 to 1601 · aged 100
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Something wrong?Tanaka Shōsuke was a Japanese merchant in the early Edo period. He is the first recorded Japanese to have travelled to the Americas in 1610. Returning to Japan in 1611, he again went to North America in 1613, with the embassy of Hasekura Tsunenaga.
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Japanese "Red seal ships" were used for Asian commerce during the first part of the 17th century
San Buena Ventura was built on the model of Liefde (depicted here), the ship on which William Adams originally reached Japan.
Hasekura Tsunenaga's portrait during his embassy in 1615, by Claude Deruet, Coll. Borghese, Rome.
A replica of the Japanese-built galleon San Juan Bautista, in Ishinomaki, Japan.About this person
Tanaka Shōsuke was a Japanese merchant in the early Edo period. He is the first recorded Japanese to have travelled to the Americas in 1610. Returning to Japan in 1611, he again went to North America in 1613, with the embassy of Hasekura Tsunenaga. In total, he accomplished two round trips between Japan and North America and helped establish trade and diplomatic relations between Japan and the Spanish Empire. According to Sumpu-ki, he was a representative of the great Osaka merchant Gotō Shōsaburō.
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