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Year 1523 ( MDXXIII ) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Julian calendar.
The 'breech-loading culverins presented at the Ming court in 1522' were a gift from the Portuguese; and Portuguese arquebuses were acquired in the 1540s by the Japanese, who copied and greatly improved them.