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It may have only lasted a mere 100 years (1543–1639), but the Portuguese presence on a formerly unfamiliar archipelago of islands that we know as Japan was characterized by intense and lucrative trade, resonant cultural interchanges, and surprising ethnological cross-pollination. As deliverers of enticing goods and extraordinary information about the external world, the Portuguese who ventured well beyond European shores during the Age of Discovery, who opened the East seaway to the rest of the known world, were the first to establish themselves in the Land of the Rising Sun and, despite a relatively brief sojourn there, left an enduring mark still perceptible nowadays.
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Castel-Branco, C., Carvalho, G. (2020). Introduction: Japanese-Portuguese Sixteenth-Century Encounter. In: Luis Frois: First Western Accounts of Japan's Gardens, Cities and Landscapes. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-0018-3_1
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