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William Adams ( Japanese: ウィリアム・アダムス, Hepburn: Uwiriamu Adamusu, kyūjitai: ウヰリアム・アダムス; 24 September 1564 – 16 May 1620), better known in Japan as Miura Anjin (三浦按針, 'the pilot of Miura '), was an English navigator who, in 1600, became the first Englishman to reach Japan.
May 22, 2024 · William Adams was a navigator, merchant-adventurer, and the first Englishman to visit Japan. At the age of 12 Adams was apprenticed to a shipbuilder in the merchant marine, and in 1588 he was master of a supply ship for the British navy during the invasion of the Spanish Armada.
Feb 27, 2024 · If you look at the life of Western samurai William Adams, you’ll realise that the character of John Blackthorne in feudal Japanese drama Shōgun is not entirely a work of fiction
William Adams (Japanese: ウィリアム・アダムス, Hepburn: Wiriamu Adamusu) (24 September 1564 – 16 May 1620), known in Japanese as Miura Anjin (Japanese: 三浦按針, "the pilot of Miura"), was an English navigator who, in 1600, was the first Englishman to reach Japan, leading a five-ship expedition for a private Dutch fleet.
May 23, 2018 · Not only was William Adams the first Englishman to reach Japan, he became an adviser to the shogun and one of the first Westerners to become a samurai. On April 19, 1600, a ship drifted into the waters near the southern Japanese island of Kyushu.
Apr 4, 2024 · Among the crew was an English navigator, William Adams, who managed to gain the trust of Tokugawa Ieyasu, a powerful warlord who became a shogun (the military leader of the samurai caste) in 1603. Adams eventually rose to the rank of Hatamoto, the shogun’s direct retainer.
William Adams lived out the rest of his life as a foreign samurai in Japan until his death in 1620 at Hirado, age 55. Through his close relationship with shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu, he played an instrumental role in opening Japan up to Western trade and influences in the early 1600s.
Feb 25, 2024 · The shogun presented Adams with two swords representing the authority of a samurai, and decreed that William Adams the pilot was dead and that Miura Anjin, a samurai, was born in his...
Jul 8, 2020 · William Adams, also known as Miura Anjin, was an English navigator who settled in Japan. He is now famous as the prototype of the hero of James Clavell's quasi-historical novel Shogun. Adams was born in 1564, in Gillingham, England. From age twelve to twenty-four, he worked as an apprentice to a shipwright.
This is a highly readable account of Adams’ voyage to and twenty years in Japan, told for the first time from a Japanese perspective, and enriched by detailed o...
