The Cambridge History of Japan Volume 4 (Early Modern Japan) (The Cambridge History of Japan)
Contributors: James L. McClain (Assistant); John Whitney Hall (Editor)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: June 28, 1991
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 976
ISBN-13: 9780521223553
Subjects: Asian / Middle Eastern history: c 1500 to c 1900; c 1500 to c 1600; c 1600 to c 1700; c 1700 to c 1800; Japan - History; History - General History; History: World; Japan; Renaissance; Asia - Japan; History / Renaissance; Japan - History - 1787-1868; History
First sentence: In 1543 some Portuguese traders in a Chinese junk came ashore on the island of Tanegashima south of Kagoshima, the headquarters city of the stsuma domain of southenmost Kyushu.