Nanban trade (南蛮貿易, Nanban bōeki; "Southern barbarian trade") is the European trade in Japan between the arrival of Europeans in 1543 to the first Sakoku Seclusion Edicts of isolationism in 1614. The Nanban trade as a form of European contact began with Portuguese explorers, missionaries, and merchants in the Sengoku period and established long-distance overseas trade routes with Japan.
Nanban trade (南蛮貿易, Nanban bōeki; "Southern barbarian trade") is the European trade in Japan between the arrival of Europeans in 1543 to the first Sakoku Seclusion Edicts of isolationism in 1614. The Nanban trade as a form of European contact began with Portuguese explorers, missionaries, and merchants in the Sengoku period and established long-distance overseas trade routes with Japan.
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