![]() ![]() ![]() There is a love triangle of sorts, involving a young Japanese midwife named Orito. ![]() The question is: will he make it through, and will he do it with his integrity intact? He discovers pretty quickly that he’s going to need good survival skills to make it through. What he finds is a multicultural community comprising Dutch, Japanese, a Prussian, an Irishman and others including Malay slaves, living and working within a complex web of ambitions, animosities and allegiances. It follows Jacob de Zoet, a young man who arrives in 1799 to work as a clerk (and to make his fortune so he can return home to marry his love, Anna). So, what is its plot? Broadly, it is about the Dutch East India Company‘s activities on Dejima, a walled island in Nagasaki harbour, during Japan’s isolationist (or, “Cloistered Empire”) period, with most of the action taking place between 17. Model of Dejima, at Dejima Wharf, Nagasaki ![]()
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