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Japanese Sakoku Ordinance System

Type Object Region Japan Time 1633–1853

The Edo shogunate in the early 17th century enacted a series of anti-Christian edicts, trade restrictions, and travel controls forming a closed forei…

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  1. 1633–1634Edo · KantōThe shogunate promulgated edicts related to banning Christianity and restricted Japanese from sailing abroad, requiring returnees to report, beginning to control foreign contact and the spread of Christianity through an edict system.
  2. 1635Edo · KantōThe 1635 edict further prohibited Japanese from sailing abroad and returning, establishing travel controls centered on shogunal permission; the sakoku policy shifted from scattered anti-Christian edicts to a systematic closed framework.
  3. 1639–1641Nagasaki · NagasakiIn 1639 the shogunate expelled the Portuguese and burned the Hirado trading post, concentrating limited foreign trade at Nagasaki, imposing port and seasonal controls on Dutch and Chinese (Ming) merchant ships; the sakoku ordinance system was essentially formed.

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