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*The popularity of imported ''karamono'' in the Muromachi period, and the need/desire to display them, contributed to the development of ''shoin'' architecture, including the ''chigaidana'' shelving, ''tokonoma'' alcove, etc. - H. Paul Varley, "Ashikaga Yoshimitsu and the World of Kitayama: Social Change and Shogunal Patronage in Early Muromachi Japan", in John Hall and Toyoda Takeshi eds., Japan in the Muromachi Age, 1977, University of California Press, (Berkeley), 192.
*The popularity of imported ''karamono'' in the Muromachi period, and the need/desire to display them, contributed to the development of ''shoin'' architecture, including the ''chigaidana'' shelving, ''tokonoma'' alcove, etc. - H. Paul Varley, "Ashikaga Yoshimitsu and the World of Kitayama: Social Change and Shogunal Patronage in Early Muromachi Japan", in John Hall and Toyoda Takeshi eds., Japan in the Muromachi Age, 1977, University of California Press, (Berkeley), 192.
*In 1614, there were around 300,000 Japanese Christians in Japan. (Schirokauer et al, A Brief History of Japanese Civilization, 126.)
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