View of Dejima

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A Japanese woman stands in front of the 19th-century folding screen "View of Dejima in Nagasaki Bay" at the National Museum of Ethnology in Leiden. She is captivated by the image of Dejima — the Dutch East India Company’s trading post and Japan’s only gateway to the West for over two centuries — which takes the shape of a folding fan. What if that “gate” to the West had remained closed? How might Japan’s culture and economy have evolved, and what would it mean for her, a Japanese woman living in the Netherlands?