PEOPLE
PERSON · DEITYBắc Đế Trấn VũThe Daoist god of the north, charged with the water tribes, who spent forty-two years on Mount Wudang and was then carried to Hội An by Chinese residents, installed in 1653 in a small shrine on a bridge, to do the work that a giant catfish out of Japanese myth had been doing badly.PEOPLE · A COMMUNITYThe Japanese Merchants1602 to 1647 · and sinceThe Japanese community at Hội An had a date it opened and a date it closed, which is rare in this archive. The bakufu licensed its ships from 1602 and called its subjects home in 1635. A few of them never boarded, and their graves are still there, kept by Vietnamese families.PERSON · NGUYỄN LORDNguyễn Phúc Chu1675 – 1725 · R. 1691 – 1725He held Đàng Trong for thirty-four years. He brought a Chinese monk over for half a year and then had the man's counsel cut into a board and hung at his gate. He asked the Qing court for a title and did not get it. His own hand survives on a bell, a stele, the preface to a book, and three characters on a bridge at Hội An.