They were, however, welcomed because of the new matchlock firearms that they brought with them from Europe. They certainly had few manners, precious little understanding of the proper way of doing things, and brought a strange religion with them. Nanban means "southern barbarian" and was the term used for European traders who came to Japan in the 1540s: they approached from the south, after all, and were barbarous by local standards. The trade growth is, of course, a welcome extra benefit.
A nanban trade port opens up a province for trade with these foreign fellows, and allows the recruitment of matchlock-armed troops. Perry of the US Navy.The Nanban Trade Port is a type of port building in Total War: Shogun 2.įoreign visitors bring strange and unsettling ideas with them, and rarely wash, but they also have interesting cargoes and a hunger for Japanese goods. Japan remained isolated from the outside world until the Convention of Kanegawa in 1854, a piece of not-quite-gunboat diplomacy by Commodore Matthew C. Eventually they were confined to Dejima, an artificial island in Nagasaki Bay, although their guns were still welcome. The Dutch managed to hang on, but their presence was circumscribed and barely tolerated. They had, after all, brought a fairly aggressive form of Catholicism, in the form of the Jesuits, to Japan. The Portuguese, who had first opened trade with Japan, were also the first to be excluded. The nanban trade between the "southern barbarians" and the Japanese existed from 1543 until the Tokugawa Shoguns closed the country to foreign disturbances in 1641. This relatively free exchange of goods and ideas can be profitable, and allows the construction of European ship designs in the local yards. Recruitment capacity (ship under construction): +1Įven the unwashed, unmannered and unwelcome can be useful.Ī nanban quarter allows foreigners greater trade rights in a province, and a new trade route is there to be exploited.Improves export capacity (increases trade values) by +200.Converts the populace to Christianity (+6 religious zeal).
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