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First the Christian missions and then trade with the Orient inspired a tradition of learning Oriental languages and, to some extent, travel writing. The most important in the latter category was the work published by a German physician working for the Dutch East India Company (VOC) in Japan at the end of the seventeenth century, between 1690 and 1702, entitled 1History of Japan, Together with a Description of the Kingdom of Siam.

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