Hirado

Hirado City Hall
Hirado-shi ; 平戸市
Geographical location in Japan
Region :	Kyushu
Prefecture :	Nagasaki
Coordinates :	33 ° 22 ' N , 129 ° 33' E Coordinates: 33 ° 22 '5 " N , 129 ° 33' 13" E
Basic data
Surface:	235.63 km²
Residents :	29,577 ; (October 1, 2019)
Population density :	126 inhabitants per km²
Community key :	42207-0
Symbols
Flag / coat of arms:
Tree :	Large-leaved stone slice
Flower :	Rhododendron x pulchrum
town hall
Address :	Hirado City Hall ; 1508 - 3 , Iwanoue-chō; Hirado -shi ; Nagasaki 859-5192
Website URL:	http://www.city.hirado.nagasaki.jp
Location Hirados in Nagasaki Prefecture

Hirado ( Japanese 平戸市 , -shi ) is a city in Nagasaki Prefecture . It is located on the island of the same name, which is now connected to Kyūshū by a bridge.

history

In the Sengoku and early Edo periods , Hirado was an important foreign trade center, especially with Ming Dynasty China . After the founder of the Tokugawa dynasty, Tokugawa Ieyasu , had given the Dutch permission to trade in Japan in 1609, the Dutch East India Company (VOC) founded its first trading post (trading post) in Japan on Hirado. In 1612 Richard Cocks set up an English trading post as a representative of the English East India Company, which was abandoned in 1623 for economic reasons. Only loosely controlled by the local dynasty of Matsura, the Dutch enjoyed great freedom of movement in Hirado ("Firando"), but were forced to move to Dejima Island in Nagasaki Bay in 1639 by the Japanese government ( Tokugawa shogunate ) .

The trade license granted by the Japanese ruler Tokugawa Ieyasu in 1609 (ndl. Handelspas )

Head of the VOC trading office in Hirado:

Jacques Specx : September 20, 1609 - August 28, 1612
Hendrick Brouwer : August 28, 1612 - August 6, 1614
Jacques Specx : August 6, 1614 - October 29, 1621
Leonardt Camps : October 29, 1621 - November 21, 1623
Cornelis van Neyenrode : November 21, 1623–1631
Cornelis van Neyenrode : 1631 - January 31, 1633
Pieter van Sante , also Pieter van Santen: January 31, 1633 - September 6, 1633
Nicolaes Couckebacker , also Nicolaas Koeckebakker: September 6, 1633–1639
François Caron : February 3, 1639 - February 13, 1641

Until the end of the Edo period, Hirado served as the seat of the Hirado fiefdom . The Castle Hirado is now a symbol of the island. Here, as in the Matsura Museum, you can see the treasures of the House of Matsura, which have accumulated over two centuries.

traffic

Street:
- National road 204: to Karatsu and Sasebo
- National road 383: to Imari and Sasebo

Hirado personalities

Koxinga , also Coxinga (1624–1662), son of a Chinese man and a Japanese woman who, as a fleet leader of the southern Ming in 1662, drove the Dutch out of Taiwan.
Inagaki Manjiro (1861–1908), diplomat
Paul Shin'ichi Itonaga (1928–2016), Former Bishop of Kagoshima
Joseph Atsumi Misue (1936–2016), Roman Catholic Bishop of Hiroshima
Kazuya Maekawa (* 1968), soccer goalkeeper
Masafumi Terada (* 1994), soccer player

Neighboring cities and communities

gallery

Dutch trading house
Bridge from Kyushu to Hirado
Hirado City Hall
Grave of the English helmsman Adam

Remarks

↑ William Adams (1564-1620) stranded in 1600 with the Dutch ship "De Liefde" in the east of Kyushus and heralded the age of Dutch-Japanese relations.

Web links

Commons : Hirado - collection of images, videos and audio files

[1] William Adams (1564-1620) stranded in 1600 with the Dutch ship "De Liefde" in the east of Kyushus and heralded the age of Dutch-Japanese relations.