The Tokugawa Shogunate in 1635 forbids merchants…

1635 CE

The Tokugawa Shogunate in 1635 forbids merchants to travel abroad under penalty of death.

A Japanese imperial memorandum from this year decrees: "Hereafter entry by the Portuguese galeota is forbidden.

If they insist on coming, the ships must be destroyed and anyone aboard those ships must be beheaded."

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Tokugawa Iemitsu View →

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Portugal, Habsburg (Philippine) Kingdom of View → Japan, Tokugawa, or Edo, Period View →

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Colonization of Asia, Portuguese View →

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Weapons View → Spices View →

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Commerce View → Watercraft View → Labor and Service View → Government View → Custom and Law View → Finance View →

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