Nagasaki was the port city of the Hizen Province (now Nagasaki Prefecture), and after 1570 began to prosper from the trade with Portugal. The government imposed a policy of seclusion on Japan in the early 17th century, and Nagasaki became the only port open to foreign trade. All the Dutch traders moved their commercial houses there in 1641.
The piece of fan-shaped land that juts out into Nagasaki Bay, attached to the shore by a bridge, is the island of Deshima. Constructed in 1634, first home of the Portuguese, later the Dutch traders.

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Imperium Japonicum in sexaginta et octo provincias divisum. Ex ipsorum Japonensium mappis & observationibus Kaempferianis. . .

The most important influence on European maps of Japan during the early years of the eighteenth century was that of E. Kaempfer based upon the manuscripts compiled during...

Maker / Publisher: KAEMPFER, E.
Place & Date: The Hague, 1727
Selling price: $1500
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Plan du port et de la ville de Nangasaki.

This plan originates from Charlevoix's work Histoire et description Générele du Japon . His first in 1715 published work was the Histoire de l'etablissement du christia...

Maker / Publisher: DHEULLAND
Place & Date: Paris, 1760
Selling price: $120
Sold in 2023