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Harbor and Dejima

See the port, the former trading post, and a 1927 film that begins in Nagasaki.

Dejima on Nagasaki’s waterfront, circa the 1870s.
Dejima on Nagasaki’s waterfront, circa the 1870s. Archive and credit
Nagasaki Bay, photographed before 1902 and reproduced in a book published that year.
Nagasaki Bay, photographed before 1902 and reproduced in a book published that year. Archive and credit
City and harbor from a hillside, circa 1900–1910. Photograph by Adolf de Meyer.
City and harbor from a hillside, circa 1900–1910. Photograph by Adolf de Meyer. Archive and credit

The Tokugawa authorities moved the Dutch trading post to Dejima in 1641. Residents, interpreters and merchants helped sustain the exchange conducted through the island. The nineteenth-century photograph shows the former trading site against the shoreline. Today’s restored Dejima helps visitors read the buildings and plan of the district.

Made in 1927, To the Sunny East follows a visitor’s journey through Japan, beginning in Nagasaki before continuing through the Inland Sea. It offers the perspective of a film made to introduce Japan overseas. Compare what the film presents with the wider harbor visible in the photographs.

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To the Sunny East

National Film Archive of Japan · 1927 travel film with Nagasaki in its opening itinerary

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Dejima today

Modern walkthrough of the restored site · Japanese narration

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