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."