{"id":856,"date":"2021-11-09T20:56:34","date_gmt":"2021-11-09T20:56:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mermaidthea.com\/?p=856"},"modified":"2021-11-09T20:56:34","modified_gmt":"2021-11-09T20:56:34","slug":"william-adams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mermaidthea.com\/?p=856","title":{"rendered":"William Adams"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

William Adams <\/strong>(24 September 1564 \u2013 16 May 1620), known in Japanese as Miura Anjin (“the pilot of Miura”), was an English navigator <\/strong>who, in 1600<\/strong>, was the first Englishman <\/strong>to reach<\/strong> Japan <\/strong>leading a five-ship expedition<\/strong> for a private Dutch fleet<\/strong>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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William Adams <\/strong> <\/span><\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Of the few survivors <\/strong>of the only ship <\/strong>that reached Japan<\/strong>, Adams <\/strong>and his second mate Jan Joosten<\/strong> were not allowed to leave the country while Jacob Quaeckernaeck and Melchior van Santvoort were permitted to go back to the Dutch Republic to invite them to trade.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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William Adams ship<\/span><\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Adams<\/strong>, along with former second mate Joosten<\/strong>, then settled <\/strong>in Japan<\/strong>, and the two became some of the first (of very few) Western samurai<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Tokugawa Ieyasu<\/strong> <\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Soon after Adams<\/strong>‘ arrival in Japan<\/strong>, he became a key advisor <\/strong>to the sh\u014dgun Tokugawa Ieyasu<\/strong>. Adams directed construction for the sh\u014dgun of the first Western-style ships<\/strong> in the country<\/strong>. He was later key to Japan’s approving the establishment of trading factories <\/strong>by the Netherlands <\/strong>and England<\/strong>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A portrait of William Adams made in Japan<\/span><\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

He was also highly involved in Japan’s Red Seal Asian trade<\/strong>, chartering and serving as captain of four expeditions to Southeast Asia<\/strong>. He died in Japan <\/strong>at age 55<\/strong>. He has been recognised as one of the most influential foreigners in Japan <\/strong>during this period.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A statue of William Adams in Nagisa Park, Ito, Shizuoka, Japan<\/span><\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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William Adams (24 September 1564 \u2013 16 May 1620), known in Japanese as Miura Anjin (“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. Of the few survivors of the only ship that reached Japan, Adams and… Continue reading William Adams<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-856","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mermaidthea.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/856","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mermaidthea.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mermaidthea.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mermaidthea.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mermaidthea.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=856"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mermaidthea.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/856\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":861,"href":"https:\/\/mermaidthea.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/856\/revisions\/861"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mermaidthea.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mermaidthea.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mermaidthea.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}