Jan Joosten van Lodensteyn (or Lodensteijn; 1556[citation needed]–1623), known in Japanese as Yayōsu (耶楊子), was a Dutch navigator and trader. Jan Joosten...
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Westerners to become a samurai, under Shōgun Tokugawa Ieyasu. Jan Joosten van Lodensteyn (1600, Dutch Republic) – Adams' shipmate, also among the first...
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