1577 Portuguese voyage to Japan

Events January 2026 January 2026 January 2026 1577 Portuguese voyage to Japan Nanbansen2.jpg 350px Nanban ships arriving in Japan, 16th century 1577 Coast of Korea Portuguese victory Kingdom of Portugal Kingdom of Joseon Domingos Monteiro Unknown 1 junk1 sampan Numerous Korean boats Unknown number of crew killed Unknown The 1577 Portuguese voyage to Japan was a private Portuguese junk voyage to Japan that was blown off course by a typhoon and driven to the coast of Korea, where the damaged vessel was surrounded by many Korean boats.Armando de Saturnino Monteiro (1992), Portuguese Sea Battles - Volume III - From Brazil to Japan 1539-1579 p. 414. The Koreans attacked the junk's sampan and killed its crew, after which the Portuguese drove them off with firearms before attempting to repair the junk and escape. Another similar voyage occurred in August 1578, which some regard as the first "documented physical presence of a European off the Korean coast", when a typhoon swept the Portuguese ship San Sebastián toward the Korean coast during its journey from Macau to Nagasaki, with fear of the locals prompting the crew not to land.González Bolado 2024 113 In contrast, C. R. Boxer links this episode to the previous voyage in 1577. If this is true, then the commander, Domingos Monteiro,Sousa Lúcio De https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Portuguese_Slave_Trade_in_Early_Mode/X5GFDwAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&bsq=domingos%20Monteiro The Portuguese Slave Trade in Early Modern Japan: Merchants, Jesuits and Japanese, Chinese, and Korean Slaves 2019-01-21 Brill Publishers 2019 978-90-04-38807-9 299 en would be the first Westerner to have set foot in the country.González Bolado 2024 120-121Boxer C.R. http://archive.org/details/dli.ernet.448023 The Great Ship From Amacon: Annals of Macao and the Old Japan Trade, 1555-1640 1959 Tip. Silvas Lda 1959 Lisbon, Portugal We realized that this second land was not the land of Japan as we thought, but Korea… which is inhabited by barbaric and inhuman people, who do not wish to trade with us at any price. And they say that in the past a Portuguese junk desired to land there, but these fierce people took their boat and all who were in it. And they were lucky to get away without being burned alive.González Bolado 2024 113 References Bibliography González Bolado Jaime Discovering Korea through Iberian Writings of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries European Journal of Korean Studies 24 1 2024 101–124 10.33526/EJKS.20242401.101 https://ddd.uab.cat/pub/artpub/2024/301276/revdiskor_a2024v24n1.pdf Category:Naval battles involving Portugal Category:Battles involving Joseon Category:1577 conflicts