trade and Nagasaki merchants: structure of investment and capital injection -- Macao and the Namban trade: the "maritime …The Portuguese in the East Asian seas in the 16th century -- The structure and content of Namban trade -- The Namban … loan" debt problem -- Religion and power in Macao -- The Jesuits and trade after the prohibition of Christianity in Japan …

Naizen's The Portuguese namban ('foreigners') painted in Japan in 1543 are representations of worlds of trade, where wealth …, the America's, Asia and Europe as mercantile cultures met in a globalizing world. From these encounters, power … modern merchant cultures is thus paramount to comprehending the sinews of globalization before 1800. Merchants worldwide …