ジャガタラ文ぶみ

noun

letters from exiled Europeans in Jakarta to their Japanese families (Edo period)

Historical term referring to correspondence sent by Dutch and other European men exiled to Batavia (Jakarta) to their Japanese wives and mixed-race children left in Japan during the isolationist Edo period.

• 江え戸ど時じ代だい、ジャガタラ文ぶみは遠とおく離はなれた家か族ぞくをつなぐ唯ゆい一いつの手しゅ段だんだった。

  During the Edo period, Jagatara-bumi were the only means of connecting families separated by great distances.