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William Adams, conosciuto anche come Miura Anjin (三浦 按針?, "il timoniere di Miura"; Gillingham, 24 settembre 1564 – Hirado, 16 maggio 1620), è stato un navigatore inglese, ritenuto il primo britannico ad aver raggiunto il Giappone.
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.
- John Adams (son), Deliverance Adams (daughter), Joseph Adams (son), Susanna Adams (daughter)
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- Miura Anjin (三浦按針)
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.
27 feb 2024 · Who is the real John Blackthorne? Cosmo Jarvis as English pilot John Blackthorne in FX's Shōgun (Photo courtesy of Disney+) The character of John Blackthorne in Shōgun is loosely inspired by William Adams. He is the first Englishman believed to have set foot in Japan, and considered one of the few Western samurai.
28 mar 2018 · William Adams: la Storia del 1° Samurai Occidentale che ispirò il libro “Shōgun”. William Adams, esperto navigatore inglese, divenne il primo samurai occidentale della storia del Giappone, in seguito all’incontro con un futuro shogun e a un incredibile viaggio per gli oceani, durato dal 1598 al 1600. La sua avventura fu d ...
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. How did an English navigator come to serve the shogun?
23 mag 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.
