Jagatara-bumi
Jagatara-bumi (ジャガタラ文), or Letters from Jacatra, is a series of surviving letters sent to Japan from children born of relationships between foreign men and Japanese women in the seventeenth century who were exiled to Batavia due to the Tokugawa policy of national seclusion. == Historical background == The year after the Sakoku Edict of 1635, which prohibited overseas travel by Japanese and placed strict restrictions on foreigners entering Japan, some 287 children born of Nanban traders from Portugal and Spain to Japanese women were banished to Macao.