明代琉球暹罗通商考叙——以《历代宝案》为中心

A Textual Analysis of Trade between Ryukyu and Siam in Ming Dynasty-Focusing on Heritages of Treasure Cases

琉球王国的外交文书《历代宝案》所载琉球与暹罗的相关咨文、琉球与暹罗间的贸易咨文往复、贸易中的物品流动以及贸易使团人员的组成反映了15—16世纪正处于“大航海时代”鼎盛时期的琉球与东南亚特别是暹罗中介贸易的空前繁荣,琉球在与中国、日本、朝鲜、东南亚诸国的中介贸易中获益颇丰,经济得到迅速发展。

Ryukyu’s diplomatic documents,“Heritages of Treasure Cases”recorded official communications,trade affairs,the exchanges of goods,and members of the trade missions between Ryukyu and Siam.The documents included in it reveals that Ryukyu was at its hay day of“great navigation era”from the 15^(th) to the 16^(th) century,its trade with the Southeast Asian countries,especially with intermediary country,Siam,was unprecedentedly prosperous.Ryukyu benefited much from trade with China,Japan,Korea and Southeast Asian countries,and its economy got rapid development.