Red Seal Ships, Kartoniert / Broschiert

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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Red seal ships were Japanese armed merchant sailing ships bound for Southeast Asian ports with a red-sealed patent issued by the early Tokugawa shogunate in the first half of the 17th century. Between 1600 and 1635, more than 350 Japanese ships went overseas under this permit system. From the 13th to the 16th century, Japanese ships were quite active in Asian waters, often in the role of "wak" pirates who plundered the coast of the Chinese Empire.