In the context of this artwork, explore the Arrival in Japan of the History.
On September 30, 1609, Philippine Governor Rodrigo de Vivero, 1st Count of Valle de Orizaba was on board a ship which was heading from the Philippines to Mexico (New Spain) when it was caught in a storm near Japan and drifted ashore in the village of Iwawada in Ōtaki Domain, Kazusa Province (present-day Onjuku, Chiba Prefecture). Local villagers succeeded in rescuing 317 of the 373 sailors on board. Local divers are said to have rescued drowning sailors from the sea and revived them with body heat. The crew was later sheltered at the Ōtaki Castle and the Iwaida Grand Shrine at the discretion of Honda Tadatomo, lord of Ōtaki Castle.Tokugawa Ieyasu sent his diplomatic advisor and translator Miura Anjin (William Adams) to Iwawada and ordered him to protect de Vivero and his crew. Honda Tadatomo met with de Vivero, and gave him kimono, tachi swords, cows, chickens, fruit, and sake. Tadatomo provided the ship's crew with food for 40 days until a decision was made on their treatment.Rodrigo de Vivero met Tokugawa Hidetada in Edo and Tokugawa Ieyasu in Sunpu. Ieyasu, as temporary ambassador to Spain, held discussions on trade, and offered to provide de Vivero and others with Western-style ships and travel expenses on the condition that they send mining engineers from Mexico. Ieyasu ordered Miura Anjin to build two Western-style ships and ordered Tanaka Shōsuke and 21 other Japanese merchants to transport de Vivero and his party to Mexico on these ships. The ships set sail from Uraga on June 13, 1610 and arrived in Mexico on October 23.In May 1611, King Philip III of Spain and Luis de Velasco, 1st Marquess of Salinas del Río Pisuerga, the Viceroy of New Spain, dispatched Commander Sebastián Vizcaíno to Japan. Vizcaíno's mission was to thank Ieyasu for the rescue, discover the "gold and silver islands", mythical islands rich in silver and gold believed to be near Japan, to return the gold coins on loan from Ieyasu, and to send Japanese merchants back home. Vizcaíno met Ieyasu in Sunpu in July 1611, delivering gifts and a letter from the king and viceroy to Ieyasu. Among these gifts was a Western-style clock. Ieyasu's foreign advisor Ishin Sūden recorded "one clock" in the gift catalog in Ikoku Nikki.Ieyasu liked the clock very much and displayed it in his room, but did not use it as a clock because it differed from the Japanese calendar system.The clock was never used or its parts replaced, and it was stored as a sacred treasure at Kunōzan Tōshō-gū in present-day Shizuoka, Shizuoka Prefecture after Ieyasu's death in 1616.
Sebastián Vizcaíno Ōtaki Domain Philip III of Spain Mexico Shizuoka tachi Uraga Miura Anjin Spain Japanese calendar Sunpu silver Ōtaki Castle Edo Japanese calendar system Viceroy of New Spain sake Tanaka Shōsuke Ishin Sūden Luis de Velasco, 1st Marquess of Salinas del Río Pisuerga kimono New Spain Tokugawa Ieyasu Japanese King Philip III of Spain King Philip II Kazusa Province Shizuoka Prefecture clock Tokugawa Hidetada Honda Tadatomo Onjuku Chiba Prefecture Japan Philippines Rodrigo de Vivero, 1st Count of Valle de Orizaba Kunōzan Tōshō-gū