Hirado (平戸市, Hirado-shi) is a city located in Nagasaki Prefecture, Japan. The part historically named Hirado is located on Hirado Island. With recent...

Híradó (or often M1 Híradó for clarity, means News Station or M1 News) is the main news program of MTVA, the Hungarian public broadcaster. It was broadcast...

inaugurated a trading factory in Hirado on 20 September 1609. The Dutch preserved their "trade pass" (Dutch: handelspas) in Hirado and then Dejima as a guarantee...

The Hirado Bridge (平戸大橋, Hirado Ō-hashi) is a suspension bridge in Nagasaki Prefecture, Japan. It connects the islands of Hirado and Kitamatsuura Peninsula...

Hirado Castle (平戸城, Hirado-jō) was the seat of the Matsura clan, the daimyō of Hirado Domain, of Hizen Province, Kyūshū. It is located in present-day...

Hirado Island (平戸島, Hiradoshima) (also previously named Hiranoshima and Firando Island) is the 4th largest island in Nagasaki Prefecture, located in the...

Hirado ware (Japanese: 平戸焼, Hepburn: hirado-yaki) is a type of Japanese porcelain mostly made at kilns at Mikawachi, Sasebo, Nagasaki, and it is therefore...

allowed to trade relatively freely. At its maximum, the Hirado trading post (平戸オランダ商館, Hirado Oranda Shōkan) covered a large area. In 1637 and 1639 stone...

Hirado Domain (平戸藩), also known as Hirado-han, was a domain during the Edo period in Japan. It was located in Hizen Province, which is now part of Nagasaki...

JS Hirado (MSO-305) is the second ship of the Awaji-class minesweepers of the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force (JMSDF). Awaji was laid down on 10 April...

attacked two Portuguese trade vessels that had shunned Matsura's port in Hirado and had gone instead to trade at Fukuda (now within Nagasaki), a port belonging...

have been named Hirado: Japanese cruiser Hirado was a Chikuma-class cruiser launched in 1911 and struck in 1940 Japanese escort ship Hirado was an Etorofu-class...

provinces of Tsushima and Iki. Facing China and Korea, the region around Hirado was a traditional center for traders and pirates. During the 16th century...

Matsuura, was a medieval and early modern Japanese samurai family who ruled Hirado Domain in Hizen Province on the island of Kyushu. They started as a group...

(1565–1624) was the head of the British East India Company trading post in Hirado, Japan, between 1613 and 1623, from its creation, and lasting to its closure...

Macau. 1609 – The Dutch open a trading factory in Hirado. 1613 – England opens a trading factory in Hirado. – Hasekura Tsunenaga leaves for his embassy to...

Ikitsuki Bridge is a continuous truss bridge that connects Ikitsuki to Hirado Island. Completed in 1991, it has a main span of 400 meters (1,300 feet)...

Jacob Quaeckernaeck in 1604 on a Red Seal Ship, provided by the daimyō of Hirado, for Pattani in the Malay Peninsula. They had letters from the Japanese...

Nakaenoshima (中江ノ島) is an uninhabited island 2 km off the coast of Hirado, Japan. It is located in the East China Sea. During Japan's ban on Christianity...

Kishū Tokugawa. Hirado Castle Hirado Castle : Observation tower Hirado Castle : Jizosaka tower Hirado Castle : North Tiger Gate Hirado Castle stands on...

present-day Sasebo was a small fishing village under the control of nearby Hirado Domain until shortly after the start of the Meiji period. Imperial Japanese...

Shichizaemon (田川七左衛門), a vassal of Hirado Domain. She was a Japanese who lived most of her life in the coastal town of Hirado, then later migrated to China...

access was available through bridges connecting Hirado Island with the mainland and Ikitsuki Island to Hirado. The dialect of Ikitsuki can be difficult to...

Retrieved 29 July 2014. Delakorda Kawashima, Tinka (2017). "Landscape in Hirado revealing the secrets of Hidden Christians' life-world: National and global...

transmission of the Shingyōtō ryu school. Seizan was born in Edo, at the Hirado-han (Hirado domain) residence, as the oldest son of Matsura Masanobu (1735–1771)...

Hirado (平戸) was the third and final vessel built of the Chikuma-class protected cruisers of the Imperial Japanese Navy. Hirado had two sister ships, Chikuma...

competitors. The first VOC trading outpost in Japan was on the island of Hirado off the coast of Kyūshū. Permission for establishing this permanent facility...

trade ship to make port in Japan. Captained by John Saris, it landed at Hirado, near Nagasaki, on 11 June 1613. The Clove and two other ships set sail...

16th-century Japanese samurai and 25th hereditary lord of the Matsura clan of Hirado. He was one of the most powerful feudal lords of Kyūshū and one of the first...

mother was Matsura Aiko (1818–1906), the 11th daughter of the daimyō of the Hirado domain, Matsura Seizan. She was born in Kyoto and entered service of the...