In 1855 of the end of Edo Period, the Tokugawa shogunate established a Japanese Naval School in Nagasaki and invited several Dutchmen, notably Willem Huyssen van KATTENDIJKE, to serve as advisers on military affairs.
幕末の1855年、徳川幕府は長崎に海軍伝習所を開設し、オランダからカッテンディーケらを招き軍事顧問とした。