Jan Hendrik Donker Curtius was the last Opperhoofd of the Dutch trading post in Japan, located at Dejima an artificial island in the harbor of Nagasaki. To negotiate with the Japanese government for a
Photograph of Donker Curtius 1862, The Hague
Dirk de Graeff van Polsbroek
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Jonkheer Dirk de Graeff van Polsbroek was a Dutch aristocrat, merchant and diplomat. Between 1863 and 1868 he was Dutch Consul General and then until 1870 Dutch Minister-Resident and de facto envoy to
Janus Henricus Donker Curtius
…visit to Edo as representative of the King William III of the Netherlands to pay tribute to Shogun Tokugawa Iesada. He was accompanied by his secretary Dirk de Graeff van Polsbroek, who left a description of the voyage to Edo in his diary. In Edo, Curtius found that the American Consul Townsend Harris had concluded the Treaty of…
Dirk de Graeff van Polsbroek
Former full coat of arms De Graeff, free Lords of Zuid-Polsbroek, Purmerland and Ilpendam (painted by Matthias Laurenz Gräff, 2011)
Grand Ball at Dirk de Graeff van Polsbroek home in Yokohama. Drawn in 1863 by Charles Wirgman and photographed by Felice Beato
Emperor Meiji receives Dirk de Graeff van Polsbroek in 1868