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Converted nine years earlier, daimyo Omura founded the port of Nagasaki as a center for Portuguese trade in 1571.
The local daimyo of Satsuma was so impressed that he started to buy British ships, which became the foundation of the future Imperial Japanese Navy.
During its subsequent two and a half centuries of rule from the new capital established at Edo, the Tokugawa organized a tightly controlled coalition of some 260 daimyo in strategic strongholds throughout the country.
From 1467 to 1568, civil war constantly raged up and down the country among some 260 daimyo, from which a dozen finally emerged victorious.
In 1863, the daimyo of Choshu (in western Honshu) fired on foreign ships in the Shimonoseki Straits.