Fernao Mendes Pinto 8: First in Japan

Human Circus: Journeys in the Medieval World

The first Europeans wash up on Japanese shores, bringing the musket as they do so, and Pinto would have you believe that he is with them.

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Sources:

• The Travels of Mendes Pinto, edited and translated by Rebecca D. Catz. University of Chicago Press, 1989.
• Cooper, Michael. The Southern Barbarians: The First Europeans in Japan. Kodansha, 1971.
• Lidin, Olof G. Tanegashima: The Arrival of Europe in Japan. Routledge, 2003.
• Perrin, Noel. Giving Up the Gun: Japan's Reversion to the Sword, 1543-1879. David R. Godine, 1979.

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