Portuguese Coins - 450th Anniversary - 1st Portuguese Landing in Tanegashima - Japan

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Characteristics

Name 200 escudos
Year 1993
Subject 450th Anniversary - 1st Portuguese Landing in Tanegashima, Japan
Period Portuguese Republic (1986 - 2001)
Currency type Commemorative coin
Composition Copper-Nickel
Board type Round

1st Portuguese Landing in Tanegashima, Japan

History


The Portuguese arrived in Japan in 1543 and the memory of this fact lingers in the Land of the Rising Sun as a turning point in the Middle Ages for modern times. The date marked Japan's opening to the West, the first boost to the Japanese miracle. As important as the scholarly research of Japanese academics, which passed into the history compendiums and into the museum halls, the tradition and legend of Tanegashima annually revives the memory of the first Nambans who arrived here with two muskets on their shoulders.
Everything in Tanegashima tells us about Portugal. You arrive at the port and, on the pier, the hero of the largest statue on the island is Infante D. Henrique. He simply calls it The man of the sea.

Little Tanegashima would be today one of hundreds of ignored islands in southern Japan, if fate had not linked it to the introduction of firearms. It was from their blacksmiths' workshops that the Portuguese shotguns, copied in series, reached the hands of the time generals. One of them would win the civil war, which had been going on for a hundred years and rebuild Japan unification.

At first, the Japanese had no name for the new weapon. They just called it tanegashima. Later, muskets or heads began to be called teppo, and that was the name that remained.

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