Jisho

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Noun
1. red seal ship; shogunate-licensed trading shipArchaic
Wikipedia definition
2. Red seal shipsFor the RCA or RCA Victor record series, see RCA Red Seal Records Red seal ships were Japanese armed merchant sailing ships bound for Southeast Asian ports with a red-sealed patent issued by the early Tokugawa shogunate in the first half of the 17th century. Between 1600 and 1635, more than 350 Japanese ships went overseas under this permit system.
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