Chocolate was introduced between 1789 and 1801; it is mentioned as a drink in the pleasure houses of Maruyama.
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Clover was introduced in Japan by the Dutch as packing material for fragile cargo.
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Sometimes physicians such as Engelbert Kaempfer, Carl Peter Thunberg, and Philipp Franz von Siebold were called to high-ranking Japanese patients with the permission of the authorities.
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J.W. Spaulding brought with him books by Japanologists Engelbert Kaempfer, Carl Peter Thunberg, and Isaac Titsingh.
Willem Verstegen (1612–1659), Dutch explorer and merchant; chief trader of the factory in Dejima
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Janus Henricus Donker Curtius (1813–1879), Dutch diplomat and last director at Dejima
Duurkoop took up his duties as Opperhoofd or chief negotiant and officer of the VOC trading post or "factory" at Dejima island in the harbor of Nagasaki, Japan in November 1776.
Thunberg's trip from Dejima to Edo passed through Yamashiro, and his account reports that Masanobu was daimyō of Yodo .
In 1643, Riebeeck travelled with Jan van Elseracq to the VOC outpost at Dejima in Japan Seven years later in 1650, he proposed selling hides of South African wild animals to Japan.
The Kunitomo Air Gun was an air rifle, circa 1820, by the Japanese inventor Kunitomo Ikkansai developed various manufacturing methods for guns, and also created an air gun based on the study of Western knowledge ("rangaku") acquired from the Dutch in Dejima.
Diaries from a trade delegation to Edo from the Dutch East India settlement on Dejima Island, Nagasaki in March 1657, refer to "big chests on four wheels" that so blocked the roads, people could not escape.
Ranga painter Shiba Kōkan visited Kōsaku in 1788, stayed at Kōsaku's home for a few nights, and was given a tour of Dejima.