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The Japanese-built 1613 galleon San Juan Bautista, in Ishinomaki, Japan (replica).
Career
Builder: Sendai Daimyo
Laid down: 1613
Launched: 1613
Commissioned: September 1613
Decommissioned:
Fate:
General Characteristics
Displacement: 500 tons
Length: 55.35 m (LOA)
Beam: 11.25 m
Draught: 3.80 m
Propulsion: 3-masted sailboat
Complement: 180
Armament: 16 cannons

San Juan Bautista (“St John Baptist”) (originally called Date Maru, 伊達丸 in Japanese) was one of Japan's first Japanese-built Western-style sail warships, and the first one to cross the Pacific in 1614. She was of the Spanish Galleon type, known in Japan as Kuro-Fune (,黒船, lit. “Black ships”), or Nanban-Sen (南蛮船, lit. “Southern Barbarian ships”).

She transported a Japanese embassy of 180 people headed by Hasekura Rokuemon, and accompanied by the Spanish friar Luis Sotelo, to the Spanish possessions of Mexico. The ultimate mission for the embassy was to go on to Europe, which she reached in 1615, before going back to Japan.

1 Construction

San Juan Bautista was built in 1613 by Date Masamune, the Daimyo of Sendai in northern Japan, in Tsuki-No-Ura harbour ( Ishinomaki, Miyagi). The project had been approved by the Bakufu, the ShogunFor the James Clavel novel, see Shogun or for the TV Miniseries. In Japanese history, a Shogun was the practical ruler of Japan for most of the time from 1192 to the Meiji Era beginning in 1868. Bakufu is a Japanese word for the administration of a Shogun's government in EdoThis article is about the former city name of Tokyo, for the Nigerian state, see Edo (state Edo ( Japanese: 江戸, literally: bay- door, " estuary"), once also spelled Yedo or Yeddo is the former name of the Japanese capital Tokyo. The pronunci.

The Shogun already had had two smaller ships (80 and 120 tons) built for him by the English pilot William Adams, but these were not sturdy enough for a trans-Pacific travel.

San Juan Bautista is reported to have required 45 days work, with the participation of technical experts from the Bakufu, 800 shipwrights, 700 smiths, and 3000 carpenters. Two Spanish men are also reported to have participated to the endeavour: the friar Luis Sotelo, and the Spanish captain Sebastian Vizcaino.

These efforts were seen with disapproval by the Spanish government in Manilla, and Los Rios Coronel suggested that Luis Sotelo should not be allowed into Japan any further (C.R. Boxer).



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