Luis de Velasco, 1st Marquess of Salinas del Río Pisuerga was a Spanish nobleman who was the ninth viceroy of New Spain from January 27, 1590 to November 4, 1595, and again from July 2, 1607, to June
Hasekura Tsunenaga's portrait during his embassy to New Spain and Europe, by Claude Deruet, Coll. Borghese, Rome.
Tanaka Shōsuke
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Tanaka Shōsuke was a Japanese merchant in the early Edo period. He is the first recorded Japanese to have travelled to the Americas in 1610. Returning to Japan in 1611, he again went to North America
San Buena Ventura was built on the model of Liefde (depicted here), the ship on which William Adams originally reached Japan.
A replica of the Japanese-built galleon San Juan Bautista, in Ishinomaki, Japan.