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In the Service of the Shogun: The Real Story of William Adams

Posted By: arundhati
Date: 18 Jul 2024 00:00:12
In the Service of the Shogun: The Real Story of William Adams

Frederik Cryns, "In the Service of the Shogun: The Real Story of William Adams"
English | ISBN: 1789148642 | 2024 | 256 pages | PDF | 10 MB

A gripping biography of the English ship pilot who would become one of the most influential Westerners in feudal Japan.

In 1600, English helmsman William Adams washed ashore in Japan and was interrogated by Tokugawa Ieyasu, Japan’s most powerful warlord and soon-to-be shogun. Far from executing Adams as a pirate, Ieyasu made him one of his most trusted advisers. This biography traces Adams’s rise from a humble pilot to a position of immense influence in Japan’s foreign relations. It unravels the subsequent diplomatic maneuvers of the Western powers in the Shogun’s empire and Adams’s eventual downfall. The first full biography of Adams based on original Dutch, English, Spanish, Portuguese, and Japanese sources,
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