List of Japanese early battleships
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This is a list of Japan
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Japan
Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...
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Battleship
A battleship is a large armored warship with a main battery consisting of heavy caliber guns. Battleships were larger, better armed and armored than cruisers and destroyers. As the largest armed ships in a fleet, battleships were used to attain command of the sea and represented the apex of a...
-type ships of the period 1410 - 1639:
- AtakebuneAtakebunewere large Japanese warships of the 16th and 17th century internecine Japanese wars for political control and unity of all Japan.Japan undertook major naval building efforts in the mid to late 16th century, during the Sengoku period, when feudal rulers vying for supremacy built vast coastal navies...
, large coastal battleships, some of them ironclad, during the Warring States period (16th-17th century). - Red seal shipsRed seal shipswere 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...
- A total of around 350 armed trade ships, many of them three-masted, commissioned by the BakufuShogunA was one of the hereditary military dictators of Japan from 1192 to 1867. In this period, the shoguns, or their shikken regents , were the de facto rulers of Japan though they were nominally appointed by the emperor...
for Intra-Asian commerce, in the first half of the 17th century. - San Buena VenturaJapanese warship San Buena VenturaSan Buena Ventura was a 120 ton ship built in Japan under the direction of the English navigator and adventurer William Adams for the shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu....
- 120 ton ship built in Japan in 1607 by the English navigator and adventurer William Adams for the Japanese shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu. - San Juan BautistaJapanese warship San Juan BautistaSan Juan Bautista was one of Japan's first Japanese-built Western-style sail warships. She crossed the Pacific in 1614. She was of the Spanish galleon type, known in Japan as Nanban-Sen San Juan Bautista (“St. John the Baptist”) (originally called Date Maru, 伊達丸 in Japanese) was one of Japan's...
- Japanese-built 1613 armed galleon that crossed the Pacific on two occasions.