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1. 1. They Came To Japan

   An Anthology of European Reports on Japan, 1543-1640

   

   A curated anthology of European eyewitness accounts from 1543 to 1640, tracing the first sustained encounters between Portuguese, Spanish, Dutch, and English visitors and a rapidly changing Japanese society. Through letters, reports, and diaries by missionaries, merchants, and sailors, it illuminates daily life, politics from the late Sengoku to early Tokugawa eras, the rise and suppression of Christianity, cross-cultural misunderstandings, and the evolving trade networks that culminated in Japan’s move toward seclusion.

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