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François Caron (1600–1673) was a French Huguenot refugee to the Netherlands who served the Dutch East India Company (VOC) for 30 years, rising from cabin boy to Director-General at Batavia (Jakarta), only one grade below Governor-General.〔Asia Society. (1874). ( ''Transactions of the Asiatic Society of Japan,'' p. 29. )〕 He was later to become Director-General of the French East Indies Company (1667–1673).〔Frazer, Robert Watson. (1896). ( ''British India,'' p. 42. )〕 He is sometimes considered the first Frenchman to set foot in Japan:〔References (): - "Si on peut dire de lui qu'il était français, il est probablement le seul français qui ait visité le Japon sous l'ancien régime." Diderot ; le XVIIIe siecle en europe et au Japon, Colloque franco-japonais ... - Page 222 by Hisayasu Nakagawa - 1988 - "En 1635 ce fut le tour de François Caron, sur lequel nous voudrions nous arrêter un moment, ... comme le premier Français venu au Japon et à Edo." Histoire de Tokyo - Page 67 by Noël Nouët - Tokyo (Japan) - 1961 - 261 pages - "A titre de premier représentant de notre langue au Japon, cet homme méritait ici une petite place" (Bulletin de la Maison franco-japonaise by Maison franco-japonaise (Tokyo, Japan) - Japan - 1927 Page 127)〕 he was actually born in Brussels to a family of French Huguenot refugees;〔"Colbert avait alors sous la main François Caron, qui, né en Hollande de parents français, avait été embarqué pour le Japon dès l'âge le plus tendre". Societe de la Revue des Mondes, François Buloz, Page 140 () "Francois Caron was born in 1600 of Huguenot parents, who were then settled in Brussels, but who shortly after his birth moved to the United Provinces." A True Description of the Mighty Kingdoms of Japan and Siam (1986)()〕 but he only became a naturalized citizen of France when he was persuaded by Colbert to become head of the French East Indies Company, which was intended to compete with the Dutch and the English in Asia.〔Yavari, Neguin ''et al.'' (2004). ( ''Views From The Edge: Essays In Honor Of Richard W. Bulliet,'' p. 15. )〕 He disputes that honour with the French Dominican missionary Guillaume Courtet. ==Japan== Caron began as a cook's mate〔Otterspeer, Willem. (2003). ( ''Leiden Oriental Connections, 1850-1940,'' p. 355. )〕 on board the Dutch ship ''Schiedam'' bound for Japan, where he arrived in 1619. His language skills had developed; and in 1627, he traveled to Edo as the interpreter for the VOC mission to the shogunal capital.〔 He is not quite the first known instance of Franco-Japanese relations, since he was preceded by the visit of Hasekura Tsunenaga to France in 1615. Caron stayed in Japan for over twenty years, from 1619 to 1641,〔Caron lived in Japan from 1619 to 1641. ''A Collector's Guide to Books on Japan in English'' By Jozef Rogala, p.31 ()〕 eventually becoming the VOC's ''opperhoofd'' (chief ''factor'' or merchant) in Japan. During this period, he married a Japanese woman (the daughter of Eguchi Jūzaemon) and had six children.〔 His entire family followed him to Nagasaki when the Japanese forced the Dutch to abandon their outpost at Hirado; The family moved with him to Batavia when he left Japan in 1641.〔Leup, Gary P. (2003). ( ''Interracial Intimacy in Japan: Western Men and Japanese Women, 1543-1900).'' pp. 8, ) ( 106. )〕 In 1626, Caron was working in Hirado as full assistant. On April 9, 1633, Caron was promoted as a senior merchant, making him the second ranking Company official in Japan. On February 12, 1639, he succeeded Nicolaes Couckebacker as President and head of the Company's trade in Japan. The Company's headquarters were moved from Hirado, while he had put a Christian year on the warehouse (1638), to Dejima in Nagasaki in 1641. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「François Caron」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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