- Japanese: 出島 (dejima / deshima)
Dejima or Deshima was a manmade island in Nagasaki Harbor to which the activities of the Dutch East India Company (VOC) in Japan were restricted in the Edo period.
The island was miniscule, home to only about forty buildings, and to, at any given time, only about ten to fifteen officers (including kapitans, factors, clerks, and physicians), plus their families, cooks, and servants.[1]
References
- ↑ Gonnami, Tsuneharu. "Images of Foreigners in Edo Period Maps and Prints." Unpublished manuscript. Presentation at symposium "Edo: Past & Present," University of British Columbia, April 1998. p8.