Like Hideyoshi, Ieyasu encourages foreign trade but…
1612 CE to 1623 CE
Like Hideyoshi, Ieyasu encourages foreign trade but also is suspicious of outsiders.
He wants to make Edo a major port, but once he learns that the Europeans favor ports in Kyushu and that China has rejected his plans for official trade, he moves to control existing trade and allows only certain ports to handle specific kinds of commodities.