The bottom of the photograph shows the harbor in the foreground with an interesting array of work buildings.

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Although it’s a far-off, slightly blurred detail, the early Dutch settlement on the fan-shaped artificial island known as Dejima can be discerned in the right-hand section of this photograph.

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The harbor at Nagasaki, one of the treaty ports opened to Western trade and businesses.

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