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 | | The period marks the governance of the Edo or Tokugawa Shogunate which was officially established in 1603 by the first Edo shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu. |
 | | The beginning of the Edo period coincides with the last decades of the Nanban period, during which intense interaction with European powers, on the economic and religious plane, took place. |
 | | It is at the beginning of the Edo period that Japan built her first ocean-going Western-style warships, such as the San Juan Bautista, a 500-ton galleon-type ship that transported a Japanese embassy headed by Hasekura Tsunenaga to the Americas, which then continued to Europe. |
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