Nagasaki
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Nagasaki, officially Nagasaki City, is the capital and the largest city of Nagasaki Prefecture on the island of Kyushu in Japan.
Nagasaki City View from Glover Garden, Nagasaki 2014
Fountain at Nagasaki Peace Park
Megane Bridge 2021
Glover House in evening light
Nanban trade
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Nanban trade is the European trade in Japan between the arrival of Europeans in 1543 to the first Sakoku Seclusion Edicts of isolationism in 1614.
First Westerners in Japan, by Hokusai, 1817. Caption: "On August 25, 1543, these foreigners were cast upon the island of Tanegashima, Ōsumi Province", followed by the two names Murashukusha (unknown) and Kirishitamōta (i.e. António da Mota, also known as Cristóvão, the Portuguese equivalent to Cristopher).
The samurai Hasekura Tsunenaga in Rome in 1615 (Coll. Borghese, Rome)
A Portuguese carrack in Nagasaki, 17th century.
Portuguese traders landing in Nagasaki