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A51184	Remarkable addresses by way of embassy from the East-India Company of the United Provinces, to the Emperor of Japan Containing a description of their several territories, cities, temples, and fortresses; their religions, laws, and customs; their prodigious vvealth, and gorgeous habits; the nature of their soil, plants, beasts, hills, rivers, and fountains: with the character of the ancient and modern Japanners. Collected out of their several writings and journals by Arnoldus Montanus. English'd, and adorn'd with a hundred several sculptures, by John Ogilby Esq; His Majesties cosmographer, geographick printer, and master of the revels in the Kingdom of Ireland.; Gedenkwaerdige gesantschappen der Oost-Indische maatschappy in 't Vereenigde Nederland, aan de Kaiseren van Japan. English.	Montanus, Arnoldus, 1625?-1683.; Ogilby, John, 1600-1676.; Nederlandsche Oost-Indische Compagnie.; United Provinces of the Netherlands.	1671 (1671)	Wing M2486A; ESTC R218646	565,250	480

a Wall and strow'd all over with white Sand stood a great Table whereon when he wanted Criminals who ever he had a picque against or had a desire to see how he would die where laid according to his Fancy then began his sole Delight and chief Recreation This he Quarters with great Art and Dexterity which done rips up his reaking Bowels yet alive and when perceiving with the effusion of Blood and Spirit before his last Gasp to feast his Cruelty chops off his Head That he binds to a Post so that he may not stir then takes his Bowes Arrows and several Guns taking aim here and there where Wounds are not Mortal and when he perceives him full of Torture with Bullets and Arrows hanging in his Legs and Thighs then to Crown his pleasure shoots him in the Breast and Belly whilest dying to close up the Tragedy he claps a Brace of Bullets into the Head But when thus he hath satiated his Cruelty upon Men to renew his delight he takes a Woman with Child and in stead of Butchering Anatomizes alive viewing the Infant in the Womb and making inspection through all the Labratories of Nature concerning the Formation Production and the Birth of Mankind and as they affirm what ever infliction hath been exercis'd by the most cruellest Tyrants he hath so much exceeded that he may be call'd The Prince of such Bloody Butchers Phalaris Bull and many other of the like inventions Cruelties of Phalaris Of Atreus Of Tullia seeming to this but easie torments besides he excell'd all those Masters of Cruelty because he troubled none with the horrid Office but was their Salvage Executioner himself The reasons from whence the malice proceeded between Quabacondono and his Unkle Taicosama But this inhumane Monster not long Raign'd thus perpetrating such unheard of Murders for his Unckle Taicosoma though he had chosen him his Successor declaring him Heir-apparent and already put him in possession of five Kingdoms suddenly this his sweetning and love towards him turn'd into hate upon several occasions for though Quabacondono was Elected by his Unckle and stil'd Emperor this his great Name bore but small Command for he administred in all Affairs of State himself keeping the Reins of Government in his own hands whilst the Favorites and flatteries about the young Emperor weary'd his Ears insinuating that he was but a Nominal Prince and how the People mock'd at his great but empty Name which signifi'd just nothing calling him Emperor without Empire and that the blindest might see Taicosama's aims who had twice intended to send him to Corea where he might either be dispatch'd or lingering in such a long War loose all his Interest at home but incourag'd him not onely with the Conquest of that Isle but that he would enable him with Forces to Conquer the main Land China and there make himself an Emperor But the business of Corea falling unsuccessful what e're he flattering pretended or secretly intended the whole design fell and came to nothing But concerning the practices of both these Princes Unckle and the Nephew and their Plots of destroying each other since the Relation stands for an attested truth we shall at large give you the whole account Taicosama hath a son in his old age QUabacondono's Fears and Jealousies daily increasing on several occasions but more especially exasperated thus Taicosama being without any Issue on which account he made him Heir-apparent and had Invested him in all his own Regalities now had a Son who by Birth and Laws of Nature might possibly sway the Empire after his Father Taicosama's Decease whose Genethliacon or Birth-day was kept with all the Joy and Celebration that could be imagined in Festivals and Thanksgiving to their gods through all the Cities in Japan that Quabacondono beyond all expectation had an Heir in his old Age This stung him to the heart being evidently bereav'd of the Empire but that which more imbitter'd his grief were his three Sons the hopes of his Family which he had already design'd to bear the Chief Commands under him in the Empire His hopes thus vanishing like a Dream all that he could bethink himself of for present redress was to cast out that this Son was none of his begetting and that they might well have spar'd their Festival Rejoycing if the truth were known The Emperor Taicosama being inform'd that this Fame was of his Nephew 's broaching stirr'd up private Animosities the more so that the whole Nation sat as in a Theatre expecting on the Japan Stage the Bloody Tragedy either of the Unckle Nephew or both Strange custom in Japan when the Emperors give over their Government ¶ DUring these private Grudges the time came on in which Taicosama according to the Japan manner was to give his Nephew Quabacondono a Visit for it was an antient Custom that when the Chief Governor voluntarily deserts his Authority investing another being grown old and retiring to privacy that not onely he but all the substitute Kings should address themselves and honor him with a Visit which Confirmation of his Authority the manner of which being so expensive and Magnificent it will not be amiss here to relate The Emperor preparing for his Progress and the Nephew to Entertain his expected coming sent Huntsmen by thousands to ransack the wide Forests for Venison as many Fishermen searching the Sea Ponds Lakes and Rivers for Scaly Banquets How the Japanners keep their feasts ¶ THe Japanners at Meals sit cross Legg'd on the ground one behind another each at a peculiar Table which being square are a Foot and a half high and according to the conditions of the People more or less Costly some made of white shining Wood like Glass some richly Varnished other Wax'd after the Indian manner and some Inlaid with Gold according to the greatness of the Feast or the number of the Tables at ordinary Dinners or at the first Course three Tables set before every one with great Variety Dish'd up all Gilded At the last Course they bring three Tables more full of Salt Meats to rellish their Cups At the Emperors Feast a great Golden Bowl call'd Sacansuchi is carry'd about Cup call'd Sacansuchi out of which the Princes are invited to drink Quabacondono had prepar'd against this Feast thirty thousand of these Tables of several fashions both for Men and Women The Women sit out of the sight of the Men in a Hall apart On the other side Taicosama was ready for the accustomary Visit to Quabacondono who in like manner was ready to receive him Taicosama puts off his journey When an eminent Person that had the Emperors Ear privately inform'd him That these gallant Preparations vail'd a secret Plot for his Ruin This warning wrought so on Taicosama that he put off the Journey which Quabacondono resented very ill having prepar'd all things in a readiness which were now lost and all his Cost and Charge bestow'd in vain and besides

by the Wealthiest and those that are less able according to their abilities If what they thus present is receiv'd the business is concluded and Marriage presently confirm'd by the Nuptial Bed The Formosan Men live 〈◊〉 with their Women Notwithstanding the concluding Ceremony the Husband and Wife dwell not together but live apart by themselves but in the Night he is allow'd in a clandestine way to steal to his Enjoyments whether making his approaches he is neither allow'd Fire nor Candle but with all silence and secrecy steals into the Bed neither there must he speak to his Bride but if he want any thing that he signifies by Coughing upon which guessing what it may be his Wife administers and her Houshold-business being done she comes to Bed a hard Lodging where indeed they have no Bed neither Pillow nor Bolster but a Buck-skin spread upon the Floor yet others have a Bedstead spread with Rushes These hardships as they suppose makes them fitter for the encounters of Venus and more stirs up Loves fervor than warm dalliance in softer accommodations Neither may he linger there but ere the Dawn visibly appear thence he must that so his departing with an appetite he may be the more earnest for a second fruition But all this while neither of them are a burthen to one another but each provide themselves and follow their own affairs and if they meet by chance in the Day they pass by like Strangers the Husband not daring to speak to his Wife without her License May not speak to them in the day-●ime The Charge of bringing up of the Children is left to her Care till they are above one and twenty years of age then their Father receives and keeps or disposes of them as he thinks fitting ¶ BUt the Formosan Women have a barbarous Custom void of all Motherly affection and humane reason for whoever proves with Child before 37 years of age when the Fruit of her Womb waxeth ripe and fit for Delivery they cruelly and in unspeakable manner destroy for in stead of a Midwife that should assist them in their Labor or Childbed-throws they employ a cruel Dame who laying them in a fit posture on their best and softest Bed Horrible Murder of their Infants crushes and kneads the tender Infant in the Womb till it become like a lump of Dough which departs from them with more extreme torture than if they were naturally deliver'd Georgius Canidius a Minister of the Gospel residing in Formosa Anno 1627 relates that he knew a Formosan Woman who was deliver'd of 16 Children in that horrible manner her first abortion being in her seventeenth Year and he being inquisitive to know why she thus made away what would have been her own dear Issue and to be esteem'd most of all worldly joys by her received this answer from her That her shamefac'dness and modesty forbad her to be a Mother before she was of age of discretion being accounted amongst them 37 Year In what Year the Formosan Men begin to keep House with their Wives The Husband as we said before in the 40 Year of his age forsakes his solitary abode and lives with his Wife spending the remainder of their days together in small Huts or Hovels in the Field but upon the least jangling or falling out they part so that sometime they change their old for new Wives once a Moneth If he can clearly convict her shewing just reason for this separation he recovers her Dowery seizing those Gifts which he presented before Marriage but failing either in his Arguments or Proofs the divorced Wife preserves her own Estate Some Marry two Wives but they are look'd upon as committing Fornication or Adultery but of late Custom and the common practice makes the offence not altogether so hainous ¶ THeir Youth and Batchellors have their peculiar Residence for in every Village as we said before 16 Houses have their Chappel U●marry'd People have their Dwelling apart in which they have distinct Lodgings as in a Colledge where they keep their Batchellors Place though Marry'd till such time as they go to live with their Wives The Formosan Houses are artificial The Formosan Houses are the handsomest and exactest built of any after the Indian manner for in stead of digging deep they raise a Foundation six Foot high of firm Clay the Walls of the Fabrick are rais'd onely with Reeds and Rushes artificially strengthen'd with interweavings having four Doors opening to the four Winds but the prime Buildings have eight Their Houshol-sluff The Ornament without and Furniture within are Stags Crested Heads and wild Boars Chinesie Raiments and Deer-skins and also Assagays or Javelins Shields Swords Bowes and Arrows Cattel Axes Cans Pitchers and Troughs Vessels of Barks of Trees and Earthen Ware But they pride most in the Bones Sculls and hairy Scalps of Enemies Conquer'd by their own Hands They use no private Feasts but publick Feasts to which every sixteen House-Parish repair being kept in their little Temple or Chappel where after their Devotion to their gods they spend the rest of their time in Feasting Singing Dancing and all manner of Idolatry and he that appears there in a Dogs-hair Coat is the bravest Fellow Strang ordering of their Dead ¶ THe manner of disposing of their Dead and Funeral Obsequies are thus When any dies the Corps being Laid out after 24 hours they elevate it upon a convenient Scaffold or Stage four Foot high Matted with Reeds and Rushes near which they make a Fire that so the Corps may by degrees dry to which Place the Friends of the Deceased daily flock together and that they may keep up sorrow the better bring along with them store of Mans-flesh and several strong intoxicating Liquors But before the sick Person departs being just ready to give up the Ghost thus they begin their inebriating grief One beats on a Drum made of a hollow Tree which gives notice of a Person deceased at which Summons the Women come from all Parts near bringing Pots and Vessels of strong Drink with them and making themselves Strange Dancing and the Relations of the Deceased Drunk They Dance all Night before the Door after this manner They take a Trough like a Chest but longer and broader and turning the bottom upwards the Women get up and two by two Back to Back move their Legs and Arms in a Dancing time and measure which pace or taboring tread sends a kind of a murmuring or doleful sound from the hollow Tree when these mounted Couples are weary they come down and others supply the Place thus the Maudlin-Drunkards Dance nine days together whilst the Body lies parching by the Fire sending forth a very noysom stench then having bathed the Corps nine days over they wrap it up close in a Mat and lay it higher than before so covering it with a fitted Canopy from all light there lying three year till such time as nothing remains

Are unmerciful They wonder at those Christians that preserve any from Perishing in Want They never disclose their Troubles They break not easily out in a Rage but being once anger'd will never be reconciled None can justly accuse them for Deceit for if any one chanceth to give more than is their due to have they will restore it again to the Donor Their excellent Arts may appear by their Coats Wax'd-Chests and Cabbinets Marry'd men much more priviledge than the women ¶ THe Marry'd-Men have much more liberty than the Women for a Man may without the least Regret be common with a Whore and can send his Wife upon any Offence home to her Friends But this kind of Divorcing their Wives is onely customary amongst the Common-People for when a Noble-man begins to have an Antipathy against his Wife he puts her not away because of her Quality but provides her in his House with all Necessaries and delights himself with those which he fancies best But the Women being thus kept in awe do all things possible to please them and the rather because that for a small Offence and meer Trifle viz. but speaking with any other Man in private they are by their Law to suffer Death from whence it proceeds that Marry'd Women here are generally very Honest and Chaste A strange passage that happen'd in Firando about a chaste Woman ¶ A Passage which happen'd in Firando Anno 1646. on August 15. may witness the same Jacatai a Person of Quality having Contracted Marriage with a young Lady and soon after the Wedding having some occasions went to Meaco a Noble-man having formerly been deny'd in his Courtship to the young Marry'd Woman under a Pretence that he would never Marry observing this opportunity came with a considerable Train of Servants to his late Mistress and forc'd her to satisfie his Lust She thus Injured resolv'd on Revenge desiring him to stay with her giving him also hopes of more such Enjoyments as he had lately had In the Interim Jacatai return'd home for whose Welcome they prepared a noble Feast on the top of the House she had also order'd that her Gallants Friends and he should be invited thither Where whilst they were in the midst of their Mirth Jacatai's Wife standing up related that there was a Woman in Saccai that had been lately Ravish'd asking what Punishment she deserv'd whereupon all those there present judg'd the Villain that had committed the Fact to suffer death and not she that was Ravish'd Which said she cry'd aloud I am she and there sits he that did it I pray take my Life that the shame of suffering such a D●●d may not stain other honest Women nor one so base as I be found amongst Men. Every one startled thereat and chiefly her Husband who proffering his Love to her promising also from that time forward never to remember the Fact she having been forc'd to it against her power These kind speeches satisfi'd her not but she said Will you because of my Dishonor take no Revenge on me then I will take it my self which she had no sooner said but leaping from the top of the House broke her Neck The Ravisher amongst the Croud of his Friends got down Stairs into the Street where ripping up his Belly fell down on the dying Woman so to accompany her in death whom he lov'd so exceedingly in his life time 〈◊〉 No less strange passage happen'd in the Realm of Fingo ¶ ABout the same time almost the like Passage happen'd in Fingo A Noble-Man residing there was Marry'd to a Lady so exceeding Beautiful that the King of Fingo being Enamor'd of her could not rest before he had satisfi'd his desires by enjoying her But because her Husband stood in his way he resolv'd to dispatch him which Murder put in Execution the Widow was presented to the King she having information that her Husband was kill'd by the King's order told him O King I account my self happy that I have this Body to serve you if your Love to me be real pray let me have one proof thereof which will be by granting me two Requests First That you will please to grant me thirty days to bemoan my Murder'd Husband and afterwards that you will plepase a Feast at your House that there I may take my leave of the Deceased's Friends All which the King granting provided a noble Dinner in one of his Royal Banqueting-Houses where when they were all in the height of their Mirth the Widow rose from the Table and stepping towards a Belcony said I will not satisfie his Lust that Murder'd my Husband the words being scarce utter'd but she leap'd down and so bruis'd her self that she dy'd on the spot whereon she fell Japanners are very wicked ¶ THe Chastity of the Japan Women is as much to be prais'd as the Mens Vices who openly perpetrate all manner of Villany to be abhor'd for they stick not to hold the Sin of Sodomy a Vertue Punish whoredom in women after a cruel manner In the mean while punishing Whoredom both in Marry'd and Unmarry'd Women after a cruel manner The Lord of Firando caus'd Anno 1636. three Maids of Honor to be taken from his Female Retinue and put in a Chest alive which was drove full of Iron Spikes because the one had committed Adultery with a Noble-man and the other two knowing of it kept it private and would not disclose it Another not much unlike the foremention'd Passage happen'd about the same time A Man coming home out of the Countrey found another Man with his Wife whom according to the Japan Custom he immediately ran thorow which done he ty'd the Woman to a Ladder and on the next day invited all her Friends who coming sat down whilst he unty'd the Woman putting on her a Death-Garment and a Box in her hand commanding her to bring the inclos'd Dainty to his Guests and there to open it which she perform'd and opening it found the Members of the Murder'd man curiously deck'd with Flowers upon the sight of which falling into a Trance the enraged Husband immediately cut off her Head Women of quality are in great esteem Women of Quality are highly esteem'd amongst them and especially those that are sent by the Emperor to be Wives to some of his Princes for it belongs solely to his Majesty to make Matches betwixt great Persons When the Emperor gives a Noble Lady in Marriage the Bridegroom makes daily great Feasts causing a Palace to be built for the Bride wherein she may keep her Court being provided with a great Train of Ladies and Maids of Honor the number of which amounts to fifty a hundred or two hundred as the Bridegroom is more or less able These Womens Lodgings are curiously Varnish'd with Wax Gilt and adorn'd with Imagery Stately progress of the women Once a year the foremention'd Woman visits her Friends in great State her Ladies and Waiting-Maids following

any one that made a Grave in any City belonging to the Power of Rome should forfeit two hundred Crowns yet notwithstanding sometimes the Ashes of some Generals that had Conquer'd their Enemies were bury'd in the Market-places which honor was done to the Emperor Trajan in Rome Elseraks Voyage from Osacca to Nangesaque ¶ BUt the Ambassador Elserak after six days stay in Osacca took Shipping on the tenth of January Anno 1644. and at Evening came to Anchor before the Village Sangya three Leagues distant from Osacca where he was forc'd to stay two days by reason of contrary Winds and then setting Sail ran in the Dusk of the Evening into the Haven of Fiungo after that he had a fresh Gale with which he pass'd by Swoja Tackessima Akas and Firmensi about Sun-set they were opposite to Muro but Sailing on all Night he reach'd to the end of fifty Leagues in twenty four hours In the Morning he discover'd Bignatum where he Anchor'd Then he left Mewarri Tantonomi Jocosimi Caminagari and Camro on their Starboard and the little Islands Syriais Caroto Szuwa Jowe and the mighty Island Tonsa on their Larboard Apparel of the Inhabitants of Tonsa ¶ THe Inhabitants of Tonsa differ a little in their Apparel from the other Japanners the Men wear a long Cap whose top hangs over their Faces about their Shoulders a loose Furr'd Cotton Coat over a Silk under-Coat their Middle girt with a broad Girdle in which they take great Pride it being richly Embroyder'd one end whereof hangs over their Belly almost to the ground The Women of any quality carry continually a Fan in their Hand on their Shoulders having a thin Cotton Cloth folded together and made fast on their Breasts which hangs behind half way down their Coats their Girdles also of Silk or Cotton according to their Estates are Pleited together As for their remaining Apparel it is like that of all other Japan Women Elserak arrives at Nangesaque ¶ THe sixteenth of January about midnight Elserak came to an Anchor before the Village Camenosacci from thence he Sail'd to the little Island Mocko. Then the Wind coming contrary and in regard he could gain but little by Rowing he Rode three days at Anchor then setting Sail again he enter'd that Evening the Haven of Simonisacci and the next day drop'd Anchor at Aymissima here he stay'd but little time but went on so successfully that late in the Evening he came up with Firando which passing by he ran into the Channel of Zetta and on the four and twentieth of January Arriv'd at Nangesaque where on the Island Disma he found the Servants of the East-India Company in good health and condition Advice to the East-India Company concerning the redeem'd Hollanders John Van Elserak the Ambassador thus come to Nangesaque sent advice of the ten releas'd Hollanders to Cornelius Vander Liin Governor in Batavia who found the business to be of so weighty a concern that he Writ to the East-India Company in the United Netherlands that setting out the Ketch Breskens to discover Tartary it fell upon the Japan Kingdom Nassame where they fired several Guns in the Haven of Namboe for which the Commanders of the Ship going Ashore in their Boat were taken Prisoners and carry'd to Jedo and were at last notwithstanding they were to suffer Death according to the Japan Laws released The Emperor who had during the Hollanders Imprisonment in Jedo been very sick was on Elserak's Arrival there restor'd to his former health whom he found very well disposed and in a good humor towards him which prov'd very luckily for the Imprison'd Hollanders The Emperor granting them his Pardon because he found that their offence was committed rather out of ignorance than wilfulness Find it convenient to send an Embassy in return of thanks to the Japan Emperor ¶ THe East-India Company took this Letter into serious consideration and at last concluded to requite the Japan Emperor by a peculiar Embassy for his Mercy shewn to the Imprison'd Hollanders and his usual civility to their People and Commerce at Nangesaque To make the Embassy the more acceptable they sent the Emperor for Presents two Brass-Guns that carry'd a Shot of forty Pound weight with Rammers Spunges and Charging-Ladles a great Looking-Glass in an Ebony Frame surrounded with small Looking-Glasses in Silver nine Pieces of fine Cloth of several Colours one great Prospective Glass inclos'd in a Gold Enammell'd Case and one Surratish Alcative On this Order from the United Netherlanders Cornelius Vander Liin Governor in Batavia rested not but Consulting with the Lords Francis Caron Charles Reinerson and Garret Demmer concluded on the following Order the seven and twentieth of June Anno 1649. according to which Orders written down the Ambassador Peter Blockhoffe sent to Japan in the Ketch Robin was to carry himself The Contents these Orders given by the Indian Councel according to which the Ambassador must carry himself to the Japanners ¶ STeer your Course directly for Japan and put not in for Formosa nor any other Countrey because it is already late in the Year that you may not loose the usual Trade-Winds In your Voyage examine the Ships Company for Papist-Books Pictures or any other Trifles belonging to the Roman Religion and the more because the Japan Councel strictly Examin'd if the Ship Breskens had not brought Portugal-Priests from the Manilla's When you come near the Japan Shore you will get Waiters on Board which you must entertain civilly The Order which the Japan Governors or Commanders give you and also what the Interpreters and Servants to the East-India Company on the Island Disma counsel you you shall observe and not follow your own Inventions When you are ready to go to Jedo Clothe your Men in Blue Serge which Apparel let them wear all their Journey except when you go to any Japan Lord or thorow a great City then let your Attendance put on their Pink Colour'd Cloth Suits When you go to speak with the Emperor or Complement any of the Councel then let your Retinue wear their best and richest Liveries being White and Red. Be careful that you are not curious to see strange Novelties except you are invited to it by Persons of Quality At your first Arrival at Nangesaque make the reason of your Embassy known to the Governors there and ask Advice of Dirk Snoek and Antony Brookhurst and follow the counsel of the Japan Interpreters You must learn the Words of the chief cause of your Embassy perfect that you may say them by Rote because when you appear before Persons of Quality they privately Write them down and afterwards modestly ask the same Question again to see if the last agree with the first Moreover excuse your self to the Japan Lords that you are a Stranger and by that means not knowing their Customs entreat their favorable assistance thereof for the East-India Company and Governor at Batavia depend