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The present work focuses on the mercantile and maritime aspects of Portugese relations with Japan. “A certain amount of overlapping with two of my previous works Fidalgos in the Far East 1550-1770 (Hague, 1948) and The Christian Century in Japan 1549-1650 (California and Cambridge University Press, 1951) was inevitable. I trust, however, that I have reduced this to a minimum by treating as briefly as possible such topics in the present book as have been dealt with at greater length in either of the above. Moreover, the three works are complementary rather than competitive” (Preface). The work was originally written for the quatro-centenary celebrations at Macao in 1955, but first published in 1960. West 153.