Rodrigo de Vivero there Velasco

Rodrigo de Vivero Velasco (1564 - 1636) was there a colonial officer Spanish of News-Spain, and the governor by interim of the Filipino in 1608.

Biography

With Manila, Rodrigo de Vivero there Velasco is confronted with the insurrection of the Japanese Enclave S with Philippines, Dilao in particular, and expels certain Japanese towards their country of origin and founds a control of the goods. A little later however, it receives a message of William Adams, on behalf of the Shogun Ieyasu Tokugawa, which wishes to establish a direct trade with News-Spain. Friendly letters are then exchanged, officially starting the relations between Japan and News-Spain.

The September 30th 1609, the ship of Rodrigo, the San Francisco , returning to Mexico, is failed Japan with a crew of 373 men, close to Iwada in the Province of Kazusa (today Chiba). Two other ships accompanied Rodrigo, the Santa Anna , which rejoin intact another Japanese port, and San Antonio , which disappears. Rodrigo de Vivero Velasco spends 9 months there to Japan, during which it meets with many recoveries the authorities, with the assistance of Luis Sotelo.

It leaves Japan on board a ship built by William Adams, the San Buena Ventura in August 1610 (it could have left on the Santa Anna , but prefers to accompany the Japanese in order to be sure that they are well accommodated on their arrival in News-Spain). It is accompanied by 23 Japanese representatives, directed by the merchant of Kyōto Shōsuke Tanaka (田中勝助, Tanaka Shōsuke ), first Japanese to carry out a crossing of the Pacifique.

They are also accompanied by the brother franciscain Alonso Muños, envoy official of Ieyasu to negotiate with the Spanish authorities. The shogun also provides them the equivalent of 4000 ducats for the voyage.

During its stay, Rodrigo establishes a treaty with Japanese, offering off-shore privileges for shipyards and a Spanish naval base in the east of Japan, in exchange of the transpacific trade and Mexican technologies of money mining. Rodrigo also requires the cartography of the Spanish coasts, the freedom of activity of the catholic priests and the expulsion of the Dutch.

Shine of Velasco, viceroy of News-Spain, receives 23 Japanese and expresses his great satisfaction in front of the traitemnet received by the Spanish sailors in Japan. It decides to send an embassy to Japan in the person of the famous explorer Sebastián Vizcaíno.

Vizcaíno has the role of bringing back the 4000 ducats, and of seeking the “money and gold Islands” supposed to be in the east of Japan. It leaves for Japan the March 22nd 1611, and after being itself failed, returns in 1613 on board the Galion Japanese San Juan Bautista with the first official Japanese embassy in direction of Americas and Europe, led by Tsunenaga Hasekura.

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