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Portuguese Ship Entering a Japanese
Harbor by an unknown artist In 1549, Western missionaries and merchants arrived on japanese shores. They brought knowledge of a vast almost completely unknown world. Japanese rulers were fascinated by the exotic clothing and the technology of these people. Japanese viewed visitors to their country as "southern barbarians". [RB] {GC}
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