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Bookmark or Share- William Adams | English Navigator & Samurai Warrior | BritannicaWilliam 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.
- William Adams (samurai) - WikipediaWilliam Adams (Japanese: ウィリアム・アダムス, Hepburn: Wiriamu Adamusu, historical kana orthography: ウヰリアム・アダムス [citation needed]; 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 ...
- William Adams: How An English Navigator Became A Samurai In JapanNot 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.
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