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The SieboldHuis Displays a Unique Japanese Collection of a Vain Doctor
22 September 2023
Premodern Japan used to be just as closed as modern-day North Korea. The little information that emerged came from Dutch merchants. Philipp Franz von Siebold, a German physician and naturalist in the service of the Dutch East India Company, created a collection that to this day is unique in size and
‘De man die een berg werd’ by Grete Simkuté: Ultimate Sacrifice in Mysterious Japan
15 July 2022
A young woman in search of meaning is inspired by the wanderings of a Japanese monk from the nineteenth century. In De man die een berg werd (The Man Who Became a Mountain), debut author Grete Simkuté writes about human motivations and how they can lead and mislead us.
When Japan’s Elite Spoke Dutch
9 September 2021
From the middle of the seventeenth until the middle of the nineteenth century, the Dutch were the only Europeans allowed to trade with Japan. Since nearly all of the academic knowledge that reached Japan from the West arrived in written Dutch, the Dutch language became the language of science in Jap
The Call of the Orient: Dutch Migration to East Asia
6 May 2019
Through the ages, people have migrated from the Low Countries to all the corners of the globe. One area that has seen ongoing migration from this area since the turn of the seventeenth century is East Asia. The reasons for this are complex, but essentially they have to do with the struggle for the i
