Post by Please Delete on Oct 19, 2021 4:34:59 GMT -5
www.labrujulaverde.com/2018/10/el-hundimiento-del-san-diego-el-galeon-espanol-que-llevaba-mercenarios-japoneses-para-frenar-una-invasion-holandesa
This article from 2018 (in Spanish, but Google translate comes out remarkably readable) take about the San Diego, which was lost in Manila Bay defending the Iberian assets in Asia from the Dutch.
The vessel was discovered back in the 90s and since studied. The artifacts brought up include tsuba from Japanese swords, thought to have been carried by Japanese mercenaries, who we're hired to protect ships from pirates.
A lovely addition to our knowledge about seafaring Japanese in late period, before the Tokugawa shoguns limited trade and effectively forbade their own people from traveling overseas.
This article from 2018 (in Spanish, but Google translate comes out remarkably readable) take about the San Diego, which was lost in Manila Bay defending the Iberian assets in Asia from the Dutch.
The vessel was discovered back in the 90s and since studied. The artifacts brought up include tsuba from Japanese swords, thought to have been carried by Japanese mercenaries, who we're hired to protect ships from pirates.
A lovely addition to our knowledge about seafaring Japanese in late period, before the Tokugawa shoguns limited trade and effectively forbade their own people from traveling overseas.
