• All ties with the homeland were severed at Dejima, and for a while, it was the only place in the world where the Dutch flag was flown.[citation needed].
  • Timeline of the Dutch’s presence in Dejima, Japan. The main events mentioned are extracted from the Dejima Operation Management Office (2020).
  • Although originally built to house the Portuguese, it was the Dutch who would claim Dejima as their trading post in Japan for the next 200 years.
  • Once you pay the small entrance fee, you will enter the realm of Edo period, when Dejima was the only intersection point between Japan and the outside world.
  • Dejima - After a relatively liberal period after 1543, in which the interactions between foreigners and the Japanese were fairly flexible, the Tokugawa shog.
  • The island of Dejima holds a significant place in Japan’s history, serving as a gateway to the Western world during the Edo period.
  • The island of Dejima has been reconstructed to convey the feeling and appearance of the Edo period “Dutch factory” and settlement.
  • Places 1. From Dejima to Tokyo. How the Dutch legation started in Nagasaki, moved to Yokohama, and then ended up in Tokyo.
  • For two hundred years, only Dutch and Chinese ships were allowed to enter Japanese waters, through the port of Nagasaki, and specifically, Dejima.
  • The artificial island of Dejima served as Japan’s only open window to Europe from the time of construction in 1636 to the closing of the Dutch Factory in 1859...
  • Billiards were introduced in Japan on Dejima in 1764; it is noted as "Ball striking table" (玉突の場) in the paintings of Kawahara Keiga (川原慶賀)...
  • This island, known as Dejima, was created by excavating a canal through a small peninsula and connecting it to the mainland with a narrow bridge.
  • If you have time to read it before a visit the most famous evocation of Dejima is the novel 'The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet' which really sets the scene.