The Role of the Trade with Siam in the Early Stage of Dutch Administration of East India

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  • オランダの東インド経営初期に於けるシャム貿易の役割：一六三四年のパタニ遠征をめぐって

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The Dutch East India Company which opened the diplomatic relations with Siam in the year 1604 launched out on the trade with Siam and gradually gaining its power in the business it finally excluded other European countries almost completely from the trade with Siam until 1670. The writer sets up a turning point in the course of its development about the year 1634 when Siam attempted to invade Patani, a small country on the east coast of Malay Peninsula. Because, in the first place, riots and upheavals inside and outside Siam at this time made it necessary for the Siamese royal family to go hand in hand with Holland and as a result it becomes more and more difficult for other rival countries to find room in the trade with Siam. The conflict between Siam and Patani symbolizes the struggle for the maritime power between their respective supporters, Holland and Portugal and the submission of Patani means the defeat of the latter. In the second place, at first the Dutch Company traded with Siam mainly by importing Siamese rice into Batavia, but from this time on they put much importance on goods for Japan, especially on furs, and with the termination of Japanese seclusion which took place just at this time Holland made more and more profit on this trade with Siam and Japan. Though this fact made Siam think it burdensome to act in concert with Holland, it at the same time assured Holland a dominant position in the trade with Siam for the next several decades.

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