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Manila, coincide with the Spanish records about Taiwan as a relay-port and
transshipping Hizen porcelains to the Philippines. As for similar dishes found in
central America, it also shows that these transit cargos from Taiwan had already
been sold to American market by Spanish Galleon trade (Nogami 2005: 250–251;
Nogami 2006: 128–129; Lu 2006: 222).

8.6 Conclusion

Taiwan and Macao played the vital roles of the international maritime transit trade
in the cultural and economic interchanges between the east and west in the sev-
enteenth century. The Chinese Kraak porcelains exported from Taiwan and Macao
in the !rst half of the seventeenth century were transshipped to other regions of the
world in a large number by the Dutch, Spaniard and Portuguese.
The Japanese Kraak style porcelains transshipped from Taiwan were sold to
Southeast Asia, but also exported to Manila, which were re-shipped to America by
Spanish galleon. The phenomenon of multi ceramic transit trade reveals the
importance of Chinese and Japanese ceramics in the international maritime trade in
the seventeenth century, and also shows the prosperous material cultural exchanges
between Asia and other places of the world in that period.

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