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    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...
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    protection. While Hidetada confined English trading activities to Hirado and Nagasaki, and barred Japanese merchants from purchasing goods from foreigners...
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    Confucius Shrine, Nagasaki Glover Garden Nagasaki Shinchi Chinatown Mount Inasa Kofukuji Sōfuku-ji Suwa Shrine Hashima Island Hirado Hirado Castle Sakikata...
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    located in present-day Hirado city Nagasaki Prefecture, Japan. It was also known as Kameoka Castle (亀岡城, Kameoka-jō). Hirado Castle was built on top...
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  • Hirado Island (平戸島, Hiradoshima) (also previously named Hiranoshima and Firando Island) is the 4th largest island in Nagasaki Prefecture, located in the...
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  • Ōshima, Nagasaki may refer to: Ōshima, Nagasaki (Kitamatsuura), former village, now part of Hirado, Nagasaki Ōshima, Nagasaki (Nishisonogi), former town...
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    Battle of Fukuda Bay (category History of Nagasaki)
    vessels that had shunned Matsura's port in Hirado and had gone instead to trade at Fukuda (now within Nagasaki), a port belonging to the rival Ōmura Sumitada...
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    Nagasaki (Japanese: 長崎, Hepburn: Nagasaki) (IPA: [naɡaꜜsaki]; lit. "Long Cape"), officially known as Nagasaki City (長崎市, Nagasaki-shi), is the capital...
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    Sasebo (redirect from Sasebo, Nagasaki)
    core city located in Nagasaki Prefecture, Japan. It is the second-largest city in Nagasaki Prefecture, after its capital, Nagasaki. On 1 June 2019, the...
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    of the temples and shrines of Hirado City, Nagasaki Prefecture, Japan "The beautiful churches of Hirado City, Nagasaki Prefecture, Japan". Archived from...
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    Italian Alessandro Valignano. Portuguese Catholics founded the port of Nagasaki, considered at its founding to be an important Christian center in the...
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    Tokugawa Ieyasu in Asia. When the Dutch trading house was established in Hirado, Nagasaki, in 1609, he was instrumental in developing trade between the shogunate...
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    Portuguese Nagasaki and Ecclesiastical Nagasaki refer to the period during which the city of Nagasaki was under foreign administration, between the years...
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    Dejima (category History of Nagasaki)
    Macau, the economy of Nagasaki suffered greatly. The Dutch were forced by government officials to move from Hirado to Dejima in Nagasaki. From 1641 on, only...
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    Hidden Christian Sites in the Nagasaki Region (Japanese: 長崎と天草地方の潜伏キリシタン関連遺産) is a group of twelve sites in Nagasaki Prefecture and Kumamoto Prefecture...
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    than a cat. The original yako is said to be invisible to the eye. In Hirado, Nagasaki Prefecture, they normally bring along a great crowd that walks with...
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    Nagasaki 0959 Higashisonogi District, Nagasaki 0956 Higashisonogi District, Nagasaki 0957 Hirado, Nagasaki 0950 Iki, Nagasaki 09204 Isahaya, Nagasaki...
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    between Hirado and China, Hirado and Holland and other exchange programmes in Hirado City, Nagasaki Prefecture, Japan". City of Hirado, Nagasaki Official...
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    Jagatara-bumi (category Hirado, Nagasaki)
    She left Hirado on the VOC ship Breda at the age of 14 or 15 in October 1639. Her long letter included by Nishikawa Joken in his 1719 Nagasaki Yawagusa...
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    October 1, 2005—Dissolved and merged with Hirado, Ikitsuki, and Ōshima into the expanded city of Hirado. Former Mayors Waseda Tsuguo (4/20/1954 - 4/19/1958)...
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    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...
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    Matsura Historical Museum (category Hirado, Nagasaki)
    Hirado, Nagasaki Prefecture, Japan, in 1955. The museum is housed in the 1893 Tsurugamine Mansion of the Matsura family, former daimyō of the Hirado Domain...
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  • after the capital of Japan. Hirado – the "Workshop Master" of the Japanese burrow, named after the city of Hirado, Nagasaki. Quetta – a womble whom Yellowstone...
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    1796, and Dutch Malabar from 1661 to 1795. The Japanese post was in Hirado, Nagasaki from 1609 to 1641, but was relocated to Dejima from 1641 to 1853. In...
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    www.city.hirado.nagasaki.jp. Retrieved 2021-12-25. "Comprehensive Preservation and Management Plan - Hidden Christian Sites in the Nagasaki Region" (pdf)...
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    between Hirado and China, Hirado and Holland and other exchange programmes in Hirado City, Nagasaki Prefecture, Japan". City of Hirado, Nagasaki Official...
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    was located in Hizen Province, which is now part of Nagasaki Prefecture. The han system in Hirado was a political and economic concept that relied on...
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    sister ships, Chikuma and Yahagi. She was named for after the island of Hirado, Nagasaki. The Chikuma-class protected cruisers were built as part of the 1907...
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    Ikitsuki and Tabira, and the village of Ōshima merged into the city of Hirado. On January 1, 2006, the towns of Fukushima and Takashima merged into the...
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    Nagasaki dialect (Nagasaki Prefecture) Sasebo dialect (northern Nagasaki Prefecture centered Sasebo) Hirado dialect (Hirado Island, west of Nagasaki Prefecture)...
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