ABSTRACT
The trade and cultural exchange between the Netherlands and Japan in the period from the seventeenth to the nineteenth century, are of noteworthy concern within the study of the history of East-West negotiations. There has been a trend to study this period by portraying the characters involved, such as men like Engerbert Kämpfer, Carl Peter Thunberg, Philipp Franz von Siebold and Izaac Titsing. Although the literature concerning this trade and cultural exchange is comparatively well studied, we do not find any systematized reference to the articles of exchange, themselves, particularly involving plants and animals.
