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The Tanegashima of Tanegashima (Tane Island) claimed descent from [[Taira Kiyomori]] ([[1118]]-[[1181]]), one of whose great-grandsons is supposed to have been sheltered by [[Hojo Tokimasa|Hôjô Tokimasa]]. This great-grandson adopted the name [[Hojo Tokinobu|Hôjô Tokinobu]] and was afterwards established on Tanegashima, to the south of the coast of [[Satsuma province]]. Tokinobu's descendants carried the name Tanegashima (though they maintained the [[Hojo clan|Hôjô family]] crest) and became long-time retainers of the [[Shimazu clan|Shimazu]] house. Tanegashima was the site of Japan's first contact with Europe, when the [[Portuguese]] vessel [[Fernand Mendez Pinto]] was forced ashore there by weather in [[1543]]. They brought with them guns, which were afterwards nicknamed 'Tanegashima'.
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