A Painting of Nagasaki 

    Differences Between the Two Cultures
From the closed door policy and down to the religion, the culture between the two places were of great amounts.
As said earlier the closed door policy was a big difference, if you are not aware of what closed door policies are it is essentially where nothing comes in (trade, people etc.) and nothing goes out (trade, people etc). This severed both pros and cons for the nation. For starters a pro would be the safety of nothing threatening coming in like disease, threatening animals etc. However this proved that also good things are  not brought in (new weaponry, technology etc). Funnily enough when an English man named William Adams came into the country and brought bits of weaponry and technology, he in a sense revolutionised Japanese warfare.
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My name is Ryuu 龍 I have escaped from Edo to a dock in Nagasaki, I am about to board the ship.
I have noticed some odd smelling things on this endeavour, from things that people have been eating, like mushy food and watery things, and they're using their hands.                                                                  

A Picture of  Venice in the 1600s

As I got off the boat I noticed the buildings and their odd structure, they have things all over it like rocks shaped in special ways, and the clothing of the people seem to be all types of shapes and sizes, but I do recognise the island like similarities with water surrounding it, however people are using small boats to get around instead of going around the water. It is very odd indeed