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URA GYOKUKIN (19TH CENTURY) This picture depicts the true view of Nagasaki Port with Dutch
View of Port of Nagasaki trading ships and Chinese junk. Nagasaki was a small fishing village
in the 16th century but grew to be one of the most important
Signed Ura Gyokukin, sealed Kinpo and another seal, the calligraphy
signed Hanko Okada (Okada Hanko; 1782-1846), sealed Denshuku cities in Japan by the late 17th century. Deshima, also known as
and another seal Dejima, was a man-made island constructed in Nagasaki harbor by
Hanging scroll; ink and color on paper the Tokugawa shogunate (1603-1867) in the mid-1630s. It was the
30 x 48Ωin. (76 x 123 cm.) only place in Japan where Westerners, first the Portuguese and then
the Dutch, were allowed to reside from the 1630s to 1856 under
$15,000-25,000 the country’s policy of national seclusion.

A similar painting of Nagasaki Port by Kawahara Keiga (1786-
1860?) is in the collection of Kushu National Museum, (go to
https://collection.kyuhaku.jp/gallery/8277.html).