Japanese Prints: The Dutch in Nagasaki: ‘The Dutch and other foreigners
in Nagasaki and Yokohama, 1800 – 1865. 40 Japanese prints from the NEHA collection. From the 1630s to the middle of the nineteenth century, Japan was practically closed to foreigners. The only Westerners allowed to stay in Japan and engage in trade were the Dutch. They had to submit to very strict regulations, however, and were only allowed to live on Deshima, a small artificial island in Nagasaki harbor’.