Oh yeah a little extra that I forgot to mention.

In response to the book Shogun which tends to give very high populations. The populations of cities during the Sengoku Jidai are estimated as follows.

Large cities such as Nagasaki etc. are thought to number around 100,000. The principle cities of the time Osaka, Kyoto and later Edo numbered over 200,000. While by the time of Tokugawa Ieyasu's death Edo is considered the largest city in Japan with a population of about 250,000.

This is considerably lower than the book suggests, but still must have seemed ubelievable to any European visitor. Large European cities of the same period numbered no more than a few tens of thousands.

What would Rodriguez have thought if he had been lucky enough to visit Peking/Beijing where archaelogical evidence and surviving documents put the population of the city at 2 million with an incredible 1 million living inside the city walls. The city walls apparently enclosing 100 square miles of land.