Europeans and firearms arrive in Japan January 31 - Tokugawa Ieyasu (d. 1616), shōgun February 16 – Kanō Eitoku, Japanese painter (d. 1590) 後奈良天皇 [Emperor...

Year 1543 (MDXLIII) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. It is one of the years sometimes...

introduced to Japan in the 13th century during the first Mongol invasion and were referred to as teppō. Portuguese firearms were introduced in 1543, and intense...

ISBN 0-203-47957-2. Brown, Delmer (May 1948). "The impact of firearms on Japanese warfare, 1543–98". The Far Eastern Quarterly. 7 (3): 236–253. doi:10.2307/2048846...

Religion in Japan is manifested primarily in Shinto and in Buddhism, the two main faiths, which Japanese people often practice simultaneously. According...

Gary P. (March 1995). "Images of black people in late medieval and early modern Japan 1543–1900". Japan Forum. 7 (1): 1–13. doi:10.1080/09555809508721524...

Toda-jō no Tatakai) was a battle during the Sengoku period (16th century) of Japan. The siege of the castle was personally led by Ōuchi Yoshitaka against Gassantoda...

century, when Portuguese sailors first arrived in Japan in 1543, and diplomatic relations officially restarted in the 19th century with the Treaty of Peace...

class system on Japanese society and cut off almost all contact with the outside world. Portugal and Japan came into contact in 1543, when the Portuguese...

1543–1608), Japanese samurai Jun'an Kinoshita (木下 順庵, 1621–1699), Japanese Neo-Confucian philosopher Junji Kinoshita (木下 順二, 1914–2006), Japanese playwright...

No. 245. Leupp, Gary P. (2003). Interracial Intimacy in Japan: Western Men and Japanese Women, 1543–1900. Continuum International Publishing Group. ISBN 978-0-8264-6074-5...

actress Shima Ryū (1823-1900), Japanese artist Shima Sakon (1543-1600?), Japanese samurai Shima Yoshitake (1822-1874), Japanese samurai Shima (surname) Shima...

samurai. Leupp, Gary P. (1995). Images of Black People in Mediaeval and Early Modern Japan, 1543–1900. Mohamud, Naima (14 October 2019). "Yasuke: The mysterious...

1949), Japanese politician Amari Masatada (甘利 昌忠, 1543–1564), Japanese samurai of the Sengoku period Amari Torayasu (甘利 虎泰, 1498–1548), Japanese samurai...

explorer who, in 1543, together with Fernão Mendes Pinto and Francisco Zeimoto, became one of the first Europeans to set foot in Japan. While traveling...

Portuguese Empire in 1543. It was used by the samurai class and their ashigaru "foot soldiers", and within a few years its introduction in battle changed...

term referring to female warriors in pre-modern Japan, who were members of the bushi (warrior) class. They were trained in the use of weapons to protect their...

Dictionary of Japanese Cinema. Scarecrow Press. ISBN 978-0-8108-7541-8. Constantine Vaporis (2012). "Timeline ... 1543–1868". Voices of Early Modern Japan: Contemporary...

(長窪城) was a battle of Japan's Sengoku period. It took place in 1543 as part of Takeda Shingen's bid to control Shinano Province, Japan. He took the castle...

remain in Japan.[citation needed] Since the Middle Ages, owing to visits from Europeans, Japanese has adopted a number of foreign words. Post-1543 Portuguese...

Events from the year 1543 in art. Titian, Portrait of Pope Paul III without a Cap Benvenuto Cellini sculpts the Cellini Salt Cellar for Francis I of France...

re-established in Japan. Portuguese shipping arrived in Japan in 1543, and Catholic missionary activities in Japan began in earnest around 1549, performed in the...

to Japan in 1543, by Portuguese on board a Chinese ship that crashed upon the tiny island of Tanegashima in the southernmost parts of the Japanese archipelago...

of fire arrow was used against the Japanese by Mongolian naval vessels in the 13th century. In 1543, the Japanese acquired matchlock technology from the...

on Tanegashima Isle in 1543, the Japanese adopted several of the technologies and cultural practices of their visitors, whether in the military area (the...

Eitoku (狩野 永徳, February 16, 1543 – October 12, 1590) was a Japanese painter who lived during the Azuchi–Momoyama period of Japanese history and one of the...

to reach Japan and the first to establish direct trade between Japan and Europe, in 1543. During the 16th and 17th century, Portuguese Jesuits had undertaken...

Portuguese in 1543. A few light cannon pieces were used at the Battle of Nagashino in 1575, but the first cannons entirely made by the Japanese were cast...

in the 16th, 17th, and 20th centuries. In 1541, 1542 or 1543 (sources differ) Portugal established contact with Japan. Japan was then involved in a...

period") was a period in the history of Japan from the arrival of Europeans in 1543 to the first Sakoku Seclusion Edicts of isolationism in 1614. Nanban (南蛮...