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There were 2 kinds of freights exported from Dejima. One was motokata nimotsu (official trade freight) and the other was waki nimotsu (private trade freight). Motokata nimotsu, which also was called compania nimotsu, was the official freight dealt with directly by the Dutch East India Company. This is the freight recorded in the Nagasaki Trading Firm Journal. The other freight, waki nimotsu (private trade freight), which was also called yakusha/sojya (staff/sailor) nimotsu referred to the items privately traded by the chief and the staff working at the Nagasaki Trading Firm, and Dutch sailors. In 1685, the Edo Shogunate set the limit for the total waki-ni torihiki (trading of waki nimotsu) at 400 kans (kan: weighing unit used at that time; a kan is equivalent to approximately 3.75kg), which was subsequently abolished in 1737. This does not mean that waki-ni torihiki began in 1685. The transa ction of private freight had already started in the early period of Nagasaki Trading. Soy sauce was exported as both motokata nimotsu and waki nimotsu. The record shows that soy sauce was exported as motokata nimotsu for 145 years from 1647 to 1792, and as waki nimotsu until Japan's policy of national isolation was abolished in 1854. |
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 Excerpt from gSoy Sauce Export in the Edo Periodh by Teijiro Yamawaki |
Soy sauce exported as motokata nimotsu began in 1647, and used the routes shown in the diagram, which were slightly altered depending on the year. From 1647 to 1720, soy sauce was directly exported from Nagasaki Trading Firm to each regional trading firm in Asia, however, from 1721 to 1792, soy sauce was exported only to Batavia HQ where it was transferred to each regional trading firm. Soy sauce export to the Netherlands continued for 24 years until 1760 using the route from Nagasaki to the Netherlands via Batavia. |
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