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YAGINUMA, Koichiro. Historical Background in the Mission of Hasekura Embassy to Spain and New Spain in 1614. Méx.cuenca pac [online]. 2014, vol.3, n.7, pp.17-42. ISSN 2007-5308.

At the time of the “great navigations” promoted by the Iberian powers of Spain and Portugal, East and West hemispheres became linked. Shortly after the consolidation of its hegemony in the Pacific Ocean, the Spanish Crown began contacts with Japan.

Religious principles and trade with European countries (called “Nanban-Boeki”) had a great influence in the transition of Japan from the Middle Age to a Modern Age.

Thus began the diplomatic relations between Japan, Spain and the colony so called New Spain. The government of Tokugawa Ieyasu shogunate undertook the great task of opening negotiations with the Spanish government in Manila, Philippines, as well as the authorities in New Spain.

Moreover, at that time, Dutch and English delegations approached the shogunate in a political tactic directed against the Spanish power. Later, in such circumstances, the feudal lord “Daimyo” Date Masamune of Sendai, under the authority of the shogunate, with the collaboration of fray Luis Sotelo, sent an embassy in charge of Hasekura Tsunenaga to New Spain, Spain and the Vatican to meet with Pope Paul V, in order to strengthen friendly and commercial relations.

Palabras llave : Treaty of Tordesillas; hegemony in the Pacific Ocean of the Spanish Crown; Nanban trade; cristianity; capitulations of Vivero.

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