Closing of Japan (sakoku)
鎖国
Event · edict · 1639–1641 · Nagasaki, Japan
The Tokugawa shogunate closed Japan to the world in steps: in 1639 the Portuguese were forbidden to come (the fifth seclusion edict), and in 1641 the Dutch trading post was moved from Hirado to the artificial island of Dejima in Nagasaki — the seclusion system complete1. Until the treaty of Kanagawa in 1854 Dejima was Japan’s only place of trade with the West2. The namban screens of the Portuguese and Dutch traders all but disappear after 16413. Nagasaki City, 出島の歴史, 「1639 寛永16 ポルトガル人の来航禁止（第5次鎖国令）· 1641 寛永18 平戸オランダ商館、長崎出島に移転（鎖国体制完成）」. ↩ 文化遺産オンライン, 出島和蘭商館跡, 「爾來安政元年神奈川條約ニ至ルマテ本邦ニ於ケル唯一ノ海外貿易地タリ」. ↩ Mason 2005, pp. 246–247. ↩ Literatur Mason 2005: Penelope E. Mason, History of Japanese Art, 2nd, Pearson Education LTD. 2005. Nagasaki City, 出島の歴史: 出島の歴史, https://nagasakidejima.jp/history/ (zuletzt abgerufen am 31.10.2026). 文化遺産オンライン, 出島和蘭商館跡: 出島和蘭商館跡, in: Cultural Heritage Online (文化遺産オンライン), https://online.bunka.go.jp/db/heritages/detail/211450 (zuletzt abgerufen am 31.10.2026).