 Jagatara-bumi

, or "Letters from Jakarta", is the term used for a series of surviving letters home from children born of relationships between foreigners and Japanese women in the seventeenth century who were exiled to Batavia in relation to the Tokugawa policy of national seclusion.The year after the Sakoku Edict of 1635, which prohibited overseas travel by Japanese and placed strict restrictions on foreigners entering Japan, some 287 children born of Nanban traders from Portugal and Spain to Japanese women were banished to Macao.