The purpose of this research is to review and analyze the establishment of the trading port of Yokoseura, during the second half of the 16th century. By comparing both Japanese and Western historical documents, it intends to clarify the complex relationships between merchants, missionaries and feudal lords, and the effects of their interactions on…[Read more]

While in the social sciences everyday mobility and street use are seen as central to the understanding of urban societies, in the work of historians these phenomena only play a limited role. Building upon methods from related fields and using digital tools, this article proposes a new methodological approach to study historical mobility and street…[Read more]

This pre-print article summarizes in Japanese language the methodology used for the “Freedom of the Streets” project led by Dr. Danielle van den Heuvel.

Eén van de meest hardnekkige en bediscussieerde ideeën over de relatie tussen mannen en vrouwen in het verleden is de theorie van de gescheiden sferen. Zowel in het werk van historici als sociologen is het idee dat vrouwen tussen 1600 en 1850 langzaam van de straat verdwenen een terugkerend thema. Vrouwen zouden zich geleidelijk minder in de p…[Read more]

This paper intends to reassess the process by which Nagasaki’s port town was established in 1571. By comparing Japanese and Western historical sources, and confronting them with archeological, geological and topographical data within a GIS database, the coastline of Nagasaki Bay around the mid-16th century was reconstructed, along with a…[Read more]

This chapter provides a general introduction to Christian architecture in Japan during the so-called “Nanban Century” or “Christian Century” (1543-1640). The prayer spaces established by missionaries in Japan consisted in a first phase of the use of
rooms inside private houses or abandoned temples adapted for the purpose; a second…[Read more]