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Portuguese Nagasaki and Ecclesiastical Nagasaki refer to the period during which the city of Nagasaki was under foreign administration, between 1580 and 1587. Formally granted to the Jesuits , a representative of the Portuguese Crown was considered the highest authority in the city when present, as per Portuguese rights of Padroado .
"Long Cape"), officially known as Nagasaki City (長崎市, Nagasaki-shi), is the capital and the largest city of the Nagasaki Prefecture on the island of Kyushu in Japan. Founded by the Portuguese, [2] the port of Nagasaki became the sole port used for trade with the Portuguese and Dutch during the 16th through 19th
A central part of reconstructed Dejima. Dejima (Japanese: 出島, lit. 'exit island') or Deshima, [a] in the 17th century also called Tsukishima (築島, lit. 'built island'), was an artificial island off Nagasaki, Japan that served as a trading post for the Portuguese (1570–1639) and subsequently the Dutch (1641–1854). [1]
In 1570 the Portuguese bought a Japanese port where they founded the city of Nagasaki, [43] thus creating a trading center that for many years was the port from Japan to the world. Portugal established trading ports at far-flung locations like Goa, Ormuz, Malacca, Kochi, the Maluku Islands, Macau, and Nagasaki. Guarding its trade from both ...
1639 - The fifth national isolation order completely prohibits trade with Portugal and Portuguese ships from entering the port and Japan. 1640 - Portuguese envoys arrive in Nagasaki from Macau, but the shogunate executes all the visitors. The Bragança dynasty is established and the Kingdom of Portugal regains its sovereignty. 1647 - King João ...
There is a legend that a group of Portuguese monks were sailing to Macao when their ship hit bad weather and they landed in Nagasaki, Japan, instead. That accidental encounter ended up changing ...
Battle of Fukuda Bay. The Battle of Fukuda Bay (福田浦の戦い, Fukudaura no tatakai) in 1565 was the first recorded naval battle between Europeans (the Portuguese) and the Japanese. [2] A flotilla of samurai under the daimyō Matsura Takanobu attacked two Portuguese trade vessels that had shunned Matsura's port in Hirado and had gone ...
The Nossa Senhora da Graça incident (ノサ・セニョーラ・ダ・グラサ号事件), alternatively called the Madre de Deus incident (マードレ・デ・デウス号事件), was a four-day naval battle between a Portuguese carrack and Japanese samurai junks belonging to the Arima clan near the waters of Nagasaki in 1610. The richly ...