In 1636, the Tokugawa shogunate built the artificial island of Dejima in Nagasaki Bay ... A little way to the west is Glover House. Completed in 1863, it is Japan’s oldest surviving wooden ...

The company’s physicians, inexplicably often German, were also allowed to leave Dejima under escort to tend to high-ranking Japanese patients. Reconstructed dinner table in the Kapitan’s house Image: ...