Anjin - The Life and Times of Samurai William Adams, 1564-1620 : : A Japanese Perspective / / Hiromi Rogers.
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...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Amsterdam : : Amsterdam University Press, , [2022] ©2016 |
| Year of Publication: | 2022 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (312 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- PREFACE
- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
- PROLOGUE
- 1 The Lure of the East
- 2 A Punishing Passage
- 3 Life or Death
- 4 The Shogun Decides
- 5 The Battle of Sekigahara
- 6 The Shogun’s Adviser
- 7 An Exceptional Honour
- 8 Samurai Life and Nuptials
- 9 The Battle for Naval Supremacy
- 10 Trade with the Dutch
- 11 A Toehold for the Spanish
- 12 Betrayed
- 13 A Welcome for the English
- 14 An Agonizing Decision
- 15 A Political Earthquake
- 16 Private Disgrace and Company Debt
- 17 War and Death
- 18 Epilogue
- AFTERWORD
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
- INDEX