Digital Rare Book:
Diary of Richard Cocks, Cape-Merchant in the English factory in Japan 1615-1622.
Edited by Edward Maunde Thompson
Printed for Hakluyt Society, London - 1883
In Two Volumes

"Richard Cocks lived in Hirado for 10 years as the head of the English Trading Post and used his position to include Chinese and East Asian goods in the trade between Japan and England. He is also well known as the first person in Japan to plant sweet potatoes. These potatoes were planted near Senrigahama Beach on the island of Hirado after they were brought back by William Adams from a trading mission to China as a souvenir from the Ryûkyû Islands (an old kingdom that is now known as Okinawa prefecture)."

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