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Dejima

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Also known as Deshima, Decima, Desjima, Dezima, Disma, Disima

thumb|17th-century Dutch Dejima, Japan thumb|A Dutchman with his servant at Dejima (18th-century painting by unknown artist, British Museum collection) thumb|right|A 2017 model of Dejima in the National Museum of Ethnology (Netherlands)|Museum Volkenkunde in [[Leiden, Netherlands]] thumb|A central part of reconstructed Dejima, Nagasaki, 2007 thumb|right|Dejima and Nagasaki Bay, circa 1820. Two Dutch ships (far right) and numerous Chinese trading Junk (ship)|junks (left and center) are depicted. thumb|right|A view of Dejima island in Nagasaki Bay (from Philipp Franz von Siebold|Siebold's Nippon

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Island.name
Dejima
Island.country
Japan
Island.location
Nagasaki
Island.image_map
Plattegrond van Deshima.jpg
Island.image_map_caption
An imagined bird's-eye view of Dejima's layout and structures (copied from a woodblock print by Toshimaya Bunjiemon of 1780 and published in Isaac Titsingh's (1824/25)

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Area
9000
Official website
nagasakidejima.jp
Image
View of Dejima in Nagasaki Bay Folding Screen by Kawahara Keiga c1836.jpg
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Commons category
Dejima
inception
1641-01-01
dissolved, abolished or demolished date
1854-01-01
native label
出島
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18 sections
Contents
  • History
  • Organization
  • Trade
  • Ships
  • Trade policy
  • New introductions to Japan
  • Nagasaki Naval Training Center
  • Reconstruction
  • Chronology
  • Trading post chiefs (''opperhoofden'')
  • Notable ''opperhoofden'' at Hirado
  • Notable ''opperhoofden'' at Dejima
  • Gallery
  • See also
  • Notes
  • References
  • Bibliography
  • External links

thumb|17th-century Dutch Dejima, Japan thumb|A Dutchman with his servant at Dejima (18th-century painting by unknown artist, British Museum collection) thumb|right|A 2017 model of Dejima in the National Museum of Ethnology (Netherlands)|Museum Volkenkunde in [[Leiden, Netherlands]] thumb|A central part of reconstructed Dejima, Nagasaki, 2007 thumb|right|Dejima and Nagasaki Bay, circa 1820. Two Dutch ships (far right) and numerous Chinese trading Junk (ship)|junks (left and center) are depicted. thumb|right|A view of Dejima island in Nagasaki Bay (from Philipp Franz von Siebold|Siebold's Nippon, 1897) thumb|Philipp Franz von Siebold (with Taki and his child Ine) watching an incoming Dutch ship at Dejima. Painting by Kawahara Keiga, between 1823 and 1829

or Deshima, in the 17th century also called , was an artificial island off Nagasaki, Japan, that served as a trading post for the Portuguese (1570–1639) and subsequently the Dutch (1641–1858). For 220 years, it was the central conduit for foreign trade and cultural exchange with Japan during the isolationist Edo period (1600–1869), and the only Japanese territory open to Westerners.

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