And there were people who went as far as Europe like Tsunenaga HASEKURA, however, the expansion movement to foreign countries began to decline due to the seclusion policy of Edo bakufu.
さらには、支倉常長などのように遠くヨーロッパにも渡った者もいたが、これら海外への拡大の動きは江戸幕府の鎖国政策によって衰退することとなる。