The Feast of Baku & the Yume no Seirei
ShortStory 1,758 words Recommended by 2 award/anthology sources
"The women of Dejima Island could never pinpoint when their dreams began to change, but they knew it had something to do with the tradesmen’s tales. The foreigners who arrived at the docks were hard men, chiseled by salt and wind and all the horrors of two hundred days at sea."
Quasar links out; the story lives on Uncanny, where the author gets the click.