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			In context with the Portuguese arriving for the first time in Japan in 1453, in the island of Tanegashima, where the local lord purchased from them a couple matchlock guns, giving place to a great expansion of such armament ... 
		
		
		
			Some time ago the Japanese postal services issued a stamp commerating the 450 years of the Portuguese arrival in their lands. Would there be a member able to translate the inscription in such stamp. Any connection to the historic matchlock introduction ?. Thank you in advance. .  | 
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