Each and every item exported from the Nagasaki Trading Firm is recorded in the Nagasaki Trading Firm Journal. The table below shows the quantity and the location of the first direct shipment of soy sauce as motokata nimotsu (official trade freight) from Nagasaki Trading Firm to regional trading hubs in Asia. The map below shows the locations of the trading firms in Asia. It indicates that soy sauce was exported to the Moluccas in the East, as far West as the Western coast of India, and also to Jakarta and Sri Lanka in the South. The main consumers of soy sauce in these regions were kakyo (Chinese merchants abroad). |
[ Soy Sauce Export to Asian Countries from Nagasaki Trading Firm ] (1647-1720) |
Name of the trading firm | Commencement of export or the first record of export | Subsequent export record (example) | |||
Trading firm | Site name currently in use | Year | Quantity | Year | Quantity |
Taiwan Trading Firm | Taiwan: Amping | 1647 | 10 barrels | 1652 | (Large) 8 barrels |
Tong king Trading Firm | Vietnam: Hanoi | 1652 | (Small) 50 barrels | 1665 | (Large) 20 barrels (Small) 50 barrels |
Sham Trading Firm | Thailand: Ayuthaya | 1657 | (Large) 3 barrels | 1658 1659 1665 1682 |
(Large) 5 barrels 3 barrels (Large) 65 barrels (Large) 3 barrels |
Batavia Trading Firm | Jakarta | 1659 | (Large) 4 barrels | 1660 1665 1693 |
(Large) 6 barrels (Large) 3 barrels (Large) 60 barrels |
Maraca Trading Firm | Malaysia: Maraca | an know | an no | 1665 1693 |
(Large) 11 barrels (Large) 3 barrels |
Pinyaru Trading Firm | Cambodia: 250km northwest of Phnom Penh | 1665 | 1 barrels | ||
Pariacatta Trading Firm | East coast of India: 40km north ofMadras |
1666 | (Large) 12 barrels | 1693 | (Large) 4 barrels |
Fuguri Trading Firm | India: Bengal region | 1666 | (Large) 3 barrels | 1693 | (Large) 3 barrels |
Colombo Trading Firm | Sri Lanka: Colombo | 1670 | 2 barrels | 1677 1679 1693 |
(Large) 12 barrels (Small) 22 barrels 12 barrels |
Surat Trading Firm | Northwest coast of India: Surat | 1672 | 2 barrels | 1677 1708 |
(Large) 50 barrels 2 barrels |
Ternate Trading Firm Banda Trading Firm Amboina Trading Firm |
Indonesia: the Moluccas | 1693 | Amboina: (Large) 3 barrels Banda: (Large) 3 barrels Ternate: (Large) 3 barrels |
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Makasar Trading Firm | Indonesia: the Moluccas Indonesia: Sulawesi (Seleves) Island |
1693 | (Large) 2 barrels |
Excerpt from "Soy Sauce Export in the Edo Period" by Teijiro Yamawaki |
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