Answer:
Explanation:
In the 1630s, the Tokugawa shogunate took a series of steps to further restrict Japan’s international contacts. By
1639, the Dutch were the only Europeans permitted to come to Japan, and the conditions under which they were
allowed to trade and interact with Japanese were extremely circumscribed by the Tokugawa authorities. The
following edict of 1635 was issued by the shogunate to the officials administering the busy port of Nagasaki, the
site of most of Japan’s foreign contacts at the time.