Carl Peter Thunberg
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Carl Peter Thunberg, also known as Karl Peter von Thunberg, Carl Pehr Thunberg, or Carl Per Thunberg, was a Swedish naturalist and an "apostle" of Carl Linnaeus. After studying under Linnaeus at Uppsa
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A depiction of Dejima based on a late 18th century print
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Dejima
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Dejima or Deshima, in the 17th century also called Tsukishima, was an artificial island off Nagasaki, Japan, that served as a trading post for the Portuguese and subsequently the Dutch. For 220 years,
Carl Peter Thunberg
…on 2 March 1775. He arrived in Batavia on 18 May 1775, and left for Japan on 20 June. In August 1775, he arrived at the Dutch factory of the V.O.C. at Dejima, a small artificial island (120 m by 75 m) in the Bay of Nagasaki connected to the city by a single small bridge. However, like the Dutch merchants…
A Dutchman with his servant at Dejima (18th-century painting by unknown artist, British Museum collection)
A 2017 model of Dejima in the Museum Volkenkunde in Leiden, Netherlands
A central part of reconstructed Dejima, Nagasaki, 2007