Image: Japanese Red Seal Ship Shuinsen 1634

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Description: A Japanese Red-seal ship (Shuinsen, Suetsugu ship, Kan'ei era). The ship incorporates junk rigged Western-style square and lateen sails, rudder and aft designs with 6 to 8 cannons. It transported Japanese merchants. The painting is a copy of the votive plaque on the Suetsugu ship dated 1634, Nagasaki City Museum.
Title: Japanese Red Seal Ship Shuinsen 1634
Credit: Nagasaki City Museum - http://www.city.nagasaki.lg.jp/nagazine/column/201807/index.html . Additional info: https://nippon.zaidan.info/seikabutsu/2004/00463/contents/0002.htm and https://maritime-asia.org/content/suetsugu-heiz%C5%8D-masanao
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