This is a more recently recreated museum of Dejima, the sequestered Dutch establishment during Japan’s isolationist era, built from the remaining plans that showed what existed. There are nothing but a few stones from the original foundation which you can see through a transparent part of the floor, but it’s still great to get an idea of what existed in this period of Japanese history.
About 20 Dutch inhabited Dejima from the 1630’s, and introduced Japan to European and Asian goods and knowledge. They were strictly monitored and could only rarely leave the island a few times per year under guard. Over time they introduced Japan to knowledge (Rangaku; 蘭學), new maps, globes, medicine, deer hides, badminton, billiards, beer, coffee, chocolate, cabbage, clocks, tomatoes, a piano, and later, photography, as well as regular trade in silk, cotton, and sugar. They also purchased Japanese rice, lacquer ware, porcelain, copper, and silver.
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