https://wkdfestivalsaijiki.blogspot.jp/2011/12/nagasaki-prefecture.html
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William Adams
(24 September 1564 – 16 May 1620)
known in Japanese as Miura Anjin (三浦按針: "the pilot of Miura"),
was an English navigator who travelled to Japan becoming the first ever Western Samurai. Adams was also to be the first Englishman ever to reach that country and was the inspiration for the character of John Blackthorne in James Clavell's best-selling novel Shōgun.
- - - More in the WIKIPEDIA !
'Anjin' play launches yearlong celebration of U.K.-Japan ties
LONDON
A play about William Adams, thought to be the first Englishman to set foot in Japan, is being staged in London to mark the start of J400, a yearlong series of events to celebrate 400 years of Anglo-Japanese relations.
"Anjin: The Shogun and the English Samurai" is a drama about Adams' friendship with the first shogun, Tokugawa Ieyasu.
The play tells how Adams, a maritime pilot, was washed ashore near Usuki in present-day Oita Prefecture in 1600 and gradually became one of the shogun's most trusted advisers. He was given the name "Anjin," meaning pilot, and became a samurai.
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In the play, Adams, who is played by Stephen Boxer, gradually becomes disillusioned with his homeland and begins to appreciate the Japanese culture and lifestyle.
source : www.japantimes.co.jp - Feb 8, 2013
Samurai William: The Englishman Who Opened Japan
Giles Milton
With all the adventure, derring-do, and bloodcurdling battle scenes of his earlier book, Nathaniel's Nutmeg, acclaimed historian Giles Milton dazzles readers with the true story of William Adams — the first Englishman to set foot in Japan (and the inspiration for James Clavell's bestselling novel Shogun). Beginning with Adams's startling letter to the East India Company in 1611 — more than a decade after he'd arrived in Japan — Samurai William chronicles the first foray by the West into that mysterious closed-off land. Drawing upon the journals and letters of Adams as well as the other Englishmen who came looking for him, Samurai William presents a unique glimpse of Japan before it once again closed itself off from the world for another two hundred years.
- source : amazon.com -
. Places in Edo - Placenames .
Anjinchoo 安針町 Anjin-Cho, Anjin Cho district
the estate in Edo where Anjin lived
Now Chuo ward, Nihonbashi, 室町 Muromachi
The name Anjin-Cho was used until the early Showa period.
Anjin Dōri 安針通り Anjin Road
This name is still in use today.
Memorial stone for Miura Anjin
史蹟三浦按針屋敷跡
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. Jan Joosten van Lodensteyn (1557 - 1623) .
ヤン・ヨーステン ファン・ローデンスタイン / 耶揚子
Yayosu 八代洲 - - Yaesu 八重洲 in Edo
Joosten arrived in Japan on the ship リーフデ号 Liefde with William Adams.
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William Adams
(24 September 1564 – 16 May 1620)
known in Japanese as Miura Anjin (三浦按針: "the pilot of Miura"),
was an English navigator who travelled to Japan becoming the first ever Western Samurai. Adams was also to be the first Englishman ever to reach that country and was the inspiration for the character of John Blackthorne in James Clavell's best-selling novel Shōgun.
- - - More in the WIKIPEDIA !
'Anjin' play launches yearlong celebration of U.K.-Japan ties
LONDON
A play about William Adams, thought to be the first Englishman to set foot in Japan, is being staged in London to mark the start of J400, a yearlong series of events to celebrate 400 years of Anglo-Japanese relations.
"Anjin: The Shogun and the English Samurai" is a drama about Adams' friendship with the first shogun, Tokugawa Ieyasu.
The play tells how Adams, a maritime pilot, was washed ashore near Usuki in present-day Oita Prefecture in 1600 and gradually became one of the shogun's most trusted advisers. He was given the name "Anjin," meaning pilot, and became a samurai.
...
In the play, Adams, who is played by Stephen Boxer, gradually becomes disillusioned with his homeland and begins to appreciate the Japanese culture and lifestyle.
source : www.japantimes.co.jp - Feb 8, 2013
Samurai William: The Englishman Who Opened Japan
Giles Milton
With all the adventure, derring-do, and bloodcurdling battle scenes of his earlier book, Nathaniel's Nutmeg, acclaimed historian Giles Milton dazzles readers with the true story of William Adams — the first Englishman to set foot in Japan (and the inspiration for James Clavell's bestselling novel Shogun). Beginning with Adams's startling letter to the East India Company in 1611 — more than a decade after he'd arrived in Japan — Samurai William chronicles the first foray by the West into that mysterious closed-off land. Drawing upon the journals and letters of Adams as well as the other Englishmen who came looking for him, Samurai William presents a unique glimpse of Japan before it once again closed itself off from the world for another two hundred years.
- source : amazon.com -
. Places in Edo - Placenames .
Anjinchoo 安針町 Anjin-Cho, Anjin Cho district
the estate in Edo where Anjin lived
Now Chuo ward, Nihonbashi, 室町 Muromachi
The name Anjin-Cho was used until the early Showa period.
Anjin Dōri 安針通り Anjin Road
This name is still in use today.
Memorial stone for Miura Anjin
史蹟三浦按針屋敷跡
.................................................................................
. Jan Joosten van Lodensteyn (1557 - 1623) .
ヤン・ヨーステン ファン・ローデンスタイン / 耶揚子
Yayosu 八代洲 - - Yaesu 八重洲 in Edo
Joosten arrived in Japan on the ship リーフデ号 Liefde with William Adams.
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