Mapping Historical Maritime Exchanges between Vietnam, Thailand and Japan
Mamoru Shibayama
Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Kyoto University
Atsushi Kajiyama
Graduate School of Science, Osaka City University
Venkatesh Raghavan
Graduate School for Creative Cities & Media Center, Osaka City University
Yasuyuki Kono
Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Kyoto University
要旨
This paper focuses on Thai and Vietnamese ceramics from the 15th through 19th century, unearthed from sites in various parts of Japan, and Japanese-made ceramics discovered in the Japanese community of Hoi An in Vietnam. These references will be superimposed with the Ryukyu seafaring trade between Siam and the Ryukyus and the trading activities of the "Shuin-sen" (trading ships licensed by the shogunate) of Japan with Siam, Tonkin, Champa and Annam, in order to verify and consider the Southeast Asian trade in ceramics via maritime routes. For this purpose, a ceramics trade model that can express trading events on a time axis will be proposed, and the analysis and discussion of trends in the ceramics trade will be based on this model. Moreover, a visualization system (called e-TimeMap) has been developed to map and analyze reference materials relating to the ceramics trade. Verification of the GIS functions needed for historical analysis will also be performed.
