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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.
William Adams, also known as Miura Anjin in Japan, was an English sailor who became one of the first Western samurai in Japanese history.
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.
In this video we dive deep into the important story of the English sailor who would come to be remembered as one of the most significant foreign Samurai in J...
May 1, 2023 · How was it even possible that an Englishman became a Samurai in Japan during the early 1600s? Who was William Adams? And, more importantly, how did he manag...
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.
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.
May 23, 2018 · Published May 23, 2018. Updated January 21, 2024. 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.
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.
In 1600, English helmsman William Adams washed ashore in Japan and was interrogated by Tokugawa Ieyasu, Japan’s most powerful warlord and soon-to-be shogun. Far from executing Adams as a pirate, Ieyasu made him one of his most trusted advisers.
