List of early warships of Japan

This is a list of Japanese warships of the period 1410–1639:

  • Atakebune, large coastal warships, some of them ironclad, during the Warring States period (16th–17th centuries)
  • Red seal ships, around 350 armed trade ships, many of them three-masted, commissioned by the Bakufu for Intra-Asian commerce, in the first half of the 17th century
  • San Buena Ventura, 120 ton ship built in Japan in 1607 by the English navigator and adventurer William Adams for the Japanese shōgun Tokugawa Ieyasu
  • San Juan Bautista, Japanese-built 1613 armed galleon that crossed the Pacific on two occasions
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