Nossa Senhora da Graça incident
1610 naval battle between Portugal and Japan / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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"Madre de Deus incident" redirects here. For the capture of another ship with the name Madre de Deus in 1592, see Battle of Flores (1592).
The Nossa Senhora da Graça incident (ノサ・セニョーラ・ダ・グラサ号事件), alternatively called the Madre de Deus incident (マードレ・デ・デウス号事件), was a four-day naval battle between a Portuguese carrack and Japanese samurai junks belonging to the Arima clan near the waters of Nagasaki in 1610. The richly laden "great ship of commerce", famed as the "black ship" by the Japanese, sank after its captain André Pessoa set the gunpowder storage on fire as samurai overran the vessel. This desperate and fatal resistance impressed the Japanese, and memories of the event persisted even into the 19th century.
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Nossa Senhora da Graça incident | |||||||
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Part of the Sengoku period and Japanese–Portuguese conflicts | |||||||
Nanban Ship, Kano Naizen | |||||||
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Belligerents | |||||||
Tokugawa shogunate | Portugal | ||||||
Commanders and leaders | |||||||
Arima Harunobu | André Pessoa † | ||||||
Strength | |||||||
At least 33 vessels carrying around 3000 samurai[1] | 1 carrack carrying about 40 men on deck | ||||||
Casualties and losses | |||||||
Several hundred[2] | Almost total, carrack sunk[3] |
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