GazetteNoTenshi
Did you know the Netherlands was the first country to be able to have a trade business with Japan because they taught themselves the tea ceremony and the Japanese respected that?
smile It makes me so happy to be part of that.
I'm boring too I'm 100% Dutch.. Bleh XD
But we have a rich culture with the Japanese and Japanese people absolutely love coming here. The Tokyo Central train station was even fashioned after the Amsterdam Central train station. And I see that one at least once every week XD
You can google it
razz the similarities are obvious
razz
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「 Ah I do know that the Netherlands was one of the very few European countries to be allowed
to trade with Japan if not the only back then.
I remember something about how the Japanese modeled their ships after the ones they saw from the dutch.
It's interesting how the relations between two countries can go back centuries. 」