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Jan Joosten van Lodensteijn

Dutch navigator and trader
Jan Joosten van Lodensteyn, known in Japanese as Yayōsu, was a Dutch navigator and trader. Jan Joosten was a native of Delft and one of the first Dutchmen in Japan, and the second mate on the Dutch ship De Liefde, which was stranded in Japan in... Wikipedia
Born: 1556, Delft, Netherlands
Died: 1623 (age 67 years), South China Sea
Nationality: Dutch
Other names: Yayōsu (耶楊子)