Englishman Or Samurai
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Englishman Or Samurai
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Author : Ilza Veith
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1981
Englishman Or Samurai written by Ilza Veith and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1981 with Explorers categories.
Samurai William
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Author : Giles Milton
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2011-10-13
Samurai William written by Giles Milton and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-10-13 with History categories.
In 1611 an astonishing letter arrived at the East India Trading Company in London after a tortuous seven-year journey. Englishman William Adams was one of only twenty-four survivors of a fleet of ships bound for Asia, and he had washed up in the forbidden land of Japan. The traders were even more amazed to learn that, rather than be horrified by this strange country, Adams had fallen in love with the barbaric splendour of Japan - and decided to settle. He had forged a close friendship with the ruthless Shogun, taken a Japanese wife and sired a new, mixed-race family. Adams' letter fired up the London merchants to plan a new expedition to the Far East, with designs to trade with the Japanese and use Adams' contacts there to forge new commercial links. Samurai William brilliantly illuminates a world whose horizons were rapidly expanding eastwards.
Samurai William
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Author : Giles Milton
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2011-08
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The true story behind James Clavell¿s best-selling ¿Shogun,¿ This is the incredible tale of a man who tried to bridge two different cultures during one of the earliest encounters between East and West. In 1611, London¿s East India Co. received a startling letter from Japan, written by a marooned English mariner named William Adams. He had taken a Japanese name, risen to the highest levels in the ruling shogun¿s court, and was now offering his services as adviser and interpreter. For more than a decade, the English, helped by Adams, attempted trade with the shogun. Faced with the difficulties of communicating, and hounded by Jesuit monks and Dutch assassins, they eventually found themselves in a battle for their lives. Illustrations.
Servant Of The Shogun
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1981
Servant Of The Shogun written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1981 with British categories.
Samurai William
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Author : Milton Giles
language : en
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Needle Watcher
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Author : Richard Blaker
language : en
Publisher: Tuttle Publishing
Release Date : 2012-01-01
Needle Watcher written by Richard Blaker and has been published by Tuttle Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-01-01 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
This fascinating novel reconstructs the story of Will Adams, a native of Gillingham, in Kent, England, and his voyage to Japan in the seventeenth century. Adams' knowledge of seafaring vessels at the time causes him to be taken into the favor of the shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu and,in time,to become recognized as the founder of the Japanese navy. Adams was one of the most picturesque and daring of Britain's maritime traders, and this depiction of him as the first Englishman to settle in what was then a hostile country is written not only with distinction but also with an imaginative grasp that takes it right out of the class of the ordinary historical novel. It is an epic tale of strange adventures, and it creates an atmosphere of rare and haunting quality. In its understanding of the Japanese mind it is hardly less than remarkable. Will Adams died in Japan in the spring of 1620 and is buried at Yokosuka. Every year a ceremony is still held to commemorate the anniversary of his death. There is also a memorial to him at Ito,in Shizuoka Prefecture, as well as one at his birthplace in England.
Anjin
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Author : Hiromi T. Rogers
language : en
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Release Date : 2016
Anjin written by Hiromi T. Rogers and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016 with British categories.
The year is 1600. It is April and Japan's iconic cherry trees are in full flower. A battered ship drifts on the tide into Usuki Bay in southern Japan. On board, barely able to stand, are twenty-three Dutchmen and one Englishman, the remnants of a fleet of five ships and 500 men that had set out from Rotterdam in 1598. The Englishman was William Adams, later to be known as Anjin Miura by the Japanese, whose subsequent transformation from wretched prisoner to one of the Shogun's closest advisers is the centrepiece of this book. As a native of Japan, and a scholar of seventeenth-century Japanese history, the author delves deep into the cultural context facing Adams in what is one of the great examples of assimilation into the highest reaches of a foreign culture. Her access to Japanese sources, including contemporary accounts - some not previously seen by Western scholars researching the subject - offers us a fuller understanding of the life lived by William Adams as a high-ranking samurai and his grandstand view of the collision of cultures that led to Japan's self-imposed isolation, lasting over two centuries. This is a highly readable account of Adams' voyage to and twenty years in Japan and that is supported by detailed observations of Japanese culture and society at this time. New light is shed on Adams' relations with the Dutch and his countrymen, including the disastrous relationship with Captain John Saris, the key role likely to have been played by the munitions, including cannon, removed from Adams' ship De Liefde in the great battle of Sekigahara (September 1600), the shipbuilding skills that enabled Japan to advance its international maritime ambitions, as well as the scientific and technical support Adams was able to provide in the refining process of Japan's gold and silver.
Anjin The Shogun And The English Samurai
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Author : Mike Poulton
language : en
Publisher: Nick Hern Books
Release Date : 2013-02-01
Anjin The Shogun And The English Samurai written by Mike Poulton and has been published by Nick Hern Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-02-01 with categories.
An epic and compelling tale of friendship, honour, love and sacrifice. William Adams, known in Japanese as Anjin, was an English maritime pilot who is believed to be the first Englishman to ever reach Japan. Washed ashore on a strange and exotic land, Anjin soon finds himself as the trusted adviser to the powerful Shogun Tokugawa, drawn to the heart of a dangerous clash of cultures and struggle for power, whilst war threatens to erupt all around. Torn between two worlds and two lives, Anjin must decide who he really is, and where he really belongs.
Adams The Pilot
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Author : William Corr
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2012-10-12
Adams The Pilot written by William Corr and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-10-12 with Social Science categories.
This book charts the life and times of Captain William Adams who lived in the period of 1564 to 1620. Adam himself wrote little; his letters and logs, while vivid and valuable, would convey too little about the eventful years between 1600 and 1620 on their own. Other sources, such as thevarious writings of other Europeans in Japan, complete the tale. Including mentions of significant historical events, for example in 1588 William Adams commands a supply ship, the ‘Richard Dygylde’, at the time of Philip II of Spain's attempted invasion of England, the Enterprise of England (the Spanish Armada) and in 1600 The first Dutch ship (Liefde) arrives in Japan. William Adams is taken before Tokugawa Leyasu and questioned;he explains that Holland and England are at war with Spain and Portugal. Leyasu declines the Portuguese suggestion that he execute the Liefde's crew.
Samurai William
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Author : Giles Milton
language : en
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
Release Date : 2003
Samurai William written by Giles Milton and has been published by Hodder & Stoughton this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with British categories.
With all the adventure and bloodcurdling battle scenes of his earlier book, "Nathaniel's Nutmeg," an acclaimed historian 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").