Pieter Nuyts

Date of birth and death unknown. Third governor of Taiwan during Dutch occupation in the 17th century. Also known as Nuyts. As an extra-official councillor for the East Indies Government, he travelled to Batavia in 1627, and then became governor of Taiwan. He came to Japan as an ambassador in the same year (Kan'ei 4) to negotiate a settlement of a dispute with a Japanese trading ship arriving in Taiwan, but returned to his post without being allowed to meet with Shogun Tokugawa Iemitsu. The following year, in 1628, he detained Hamada Yahyoe, who had arrived in Taiwan commanding Suetsugu Heizo's ship, but was pressured into reconciling with the Dutch. As a result of this incident, the shogunate temporarily closed off the Dutch trading post in Hirado and prohibited trade, but the situation was resolved in 1632 when the governor escorted Nuyts to Japan as the person responsible for the incident. After five years of imprisonment, Nuyts was released and returned to Batavia, where he was held responsible and stripped of all his status and assets and deported.

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"Diary of the Dutch Trading Post in Hirado, translated by Yoko Nagazumi (1969-1970, Iwanami Shoten)" ▽ "Diary of the Dutch Trading Post in Hirado and the British Trading Post in Hirado - Early Modern Japan and the Path to National Isolation as Seen by Blue Eyes, by Yoko Nagazumi and Mariko Takeda (Diary Records of Japan's History Series 7, 1981, Soshiete)"

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生没年不詳。17世紀オランダ占領台湾の第3代長官。ノイツともいう。東インド総督府の員外参議員として1627年バタビアに渡り、ついで台湾長官となった。台湾に来航する日本貿易船との紛争解決の交渉のため、同年（寛永4）大使として来日したが、将軍徳川家光(いえみつ)への謁見を許されぬまま帰任。翌1628年、末次平蔵(すえつぐへいぞう)の船を統率して台湾に来航した浜田弥兵衛(やひょうえ)を抑留したが、逆に圧せられて和解した。この事件により、幕府は一時平戸(ひらど)のオランダ商館を封鎖し貿易を禁止したが、1632年総督がヌイツを事件責任者として日本に護送したことで事態は解決した。5年間の監禁ののち釈放されバタビアに帰ったヌイツは、責任を問われすべての地位・資産を奪われて本国送還となった。

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『永積洋子訳『平戸オランダ商館の日記』（1969～1970・岩波書店）』▽『永積洋子、武田万里子著「平戸オランダ商館イギリス商館日記――碧眼のみた近世の日本と鎖国への道」（『日記記録による日本歴史叢書7』1981・そしえて）』

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