Dutch personnel and Japanese women watching an incoming towed Dutch sailing ship at Dejima by Kawahara Keiga

Japanese words of Dutch origin started to develop when the

Dutch East India Company The United East India Company ( nl, Verenigde Oostindische Compagnie, the VOC) was a chartered company established on the 20th March 1602 by the States General of the Netherlands amalgamating existing companies into the first joint-stock ...

initiated trading in Japan from the

factory A factory, manufacturing plant or a production plant is an industrial facility, often a complex consisting of several buildings filled with machinery, where workers manufacture items or operate machines which process each item into another. T ...

of Hirado in 1609. In 1640, the Dutch were transferred to Dejima, and from then on until 1854 remained the only Westerners allowed access to Japan, during Japan's ''

sakoku was the Isolationism, isolationist Foreign policy of Japan, foreign policy of the Japanese Tokugawa shogunate under which, for a period of 265 years during the Edo period (from 1603 to 1868), relations and trade between Japan and other countri ...

'' seclusion period. Numerous exchanges occurred, leading to a branch of Western learning in Japan known as '' rangaku'' (蘭学), or "Dutch learning", where the in ''rangaku'' comes from ''Oranda'', the Japanese word for

Holland Holland is a geographical regionG. Geerts & H. Heestermans, 1981, ''Groot Woordenboek der Nederlandse Taal. Deel I'', Van Dale Lexicografie, Utrecht, p 1105 and former province on the western coast of the Netherlands. From the 10th to the 16th c ...

; ''gaku'' (学) is of Sino-Japanese origin and means "learning". In the process, a number of terms were adopted from Dutch into the Japanese language. At one point, some 3,000 words are thought to have been used, especially in the areas of technical and scientific vocabulary. About 160 such words of Dutch origin remain in use today in standard Japanese.

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Which Japanese words originate from Dutch?
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Japanese Words Of Dutch Origin Japanese words of Dutch origin started to develop when the Dutch East India Company initiated trading in Japan from the factory (trading post), factory of Hirado in 1609. In 1640, the Dutch were transferred to Dejima, and from then on until 1854 ...

Dutch Japanese Dutch Linguistics lists Words of Dutch origin Dutch language in Asia

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