1837 print NAGASAKI, JAPAN
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1837 print NAGASAKI, JAPAN Print from steel engraving titled Nagasaki , published in a volume of L'Univers, Histoire et description de tous les peuples , approx. image size 10.5 x 17.5 cm, nice hand coloring. Click image or to view larger version Nagasaki , capital and largest city, Nagasaki ken (prefecture), western Kyushu, Japan, at the mouth of the Urakami-gawa (Urakami River) w it empties into Nagasaki-ko (Nagasaki Harbour). The harbour is composed of a narrow, deep-cut bay, formed at the meeting point of Nomo-saki (Cape Nomo; south) and Nishisonoki-hanto (Nishisonoki Peninsula; northwest). The city is shaped like an amphitheatre, with its crooked streets and tiered houses clinging to the hillsides that enclose the inner bay. Reclaimed land at bayside and the Urakami Basin provide some level land. Although the perception is that the city is totally modern and rebuilt since 1945, actually Nagasaki has a number of areas w old buildings and temples remain. Nagasaki was Japan's second oldest port open to foreign trade (after Hirado). It was the only Japanese port permitted by the Tokugawa shogunate (military government) between 1639 and 1859 when all other ports were closed. Portuguese traders (who introduced Roman Catholicism and guns to Japan) first arrived t in the mid-16th century. Soon after the introduction of Catholicism,
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