🛶 First contact: 1543, Portuguese ship drifts to Tanegashima. Within years, matchlock guns ( tanegashima ) revolutionize samurai warfare.
📸 Image idea: Detail of a Nanban byobu screen — a Portuguese black ship arriving in a golden-clouded Japan. nanban japan
⛪️ Jesuit Francis Xavier arrives 1549 — Christianity spreads, but so does suspicion. 🛶 First contact: 1543, Portuguese ship drifts to