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The Tokugawa:  Maps
 

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Maps are a wonderful source for the study of history.  Examine the maps on this page and remember that these were the only points of information about the outside world. 
Japan's Self-imposed isolation were ordered by the Tokugawa in the 1580's.  Christian missionaries were ordered to leave.  Christianity was viewed as source for opposition.



 

 

 

 

 

Plan of Dutch Factory on the Island of Desima at Nagasaki

 


 

 

 

 

 

Chinese Factory in the Street of Teng-chan at Nagasaki, 1688

 Tokugawa Ieyasu and his successors broadened the campaign to isolate Japan from outside influence.  From 1616, merchants were confined to a few cities.  From 1630, Japanese ships could not sail overseas.  By the 1640s only the Dutch and the Chinese ships visited Japan to trade.  Western books were banned.  The retreat into isolation was almost total by the mid-seventeenth century.  

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