page_title: Jagatara-bumi
hierarchical_section_title: Jagatara-bumi
caption_attribution_description: English: Jagatara-bumi, Matsura Historical Museum, Hirado, Nagasaki, Japan 日本語: ふくのじゃがたら文
context_page_description: Jagatara-bumi, or Letters from Jakarta, is the term used for a series of surviving letters home from children born of relationships between foreigners and Japanese women in the seventeenth century who were exiled to Batavia in relation to the Tokugawa policy of national seclusion.
context_section_description: Jagatara-bumi (ジャガタラ文), or Letters from Jakarta, is the term used for a series of surviving letters home from children born of relationships between foreigners and Japanese women in the seventeenth century who were exiled to Batavia in relation to the Tokugawa policy of national seclusion.
caption: Letter home from Fuku, thirteenth day of the fourth month, Kanbun 5 (1665) (Matsura Historical Museum)
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