William Adams (Japanese: ウィリアム・アダムス, Hepburn: Uwiriamu Adamusu, kyūjitai: ウヰリアム・アダムス; 24 September 1564 – 16 May 1620), better known in Japan as Miura...

William James Adams Jr. (born March 15, 1975), known professionally as will.i.am (pronounced "will I am"), is an American rapper, singer, songwriter,...

foreign-born people who became samurai in Japan. In this list, Japan means the Japanese Archipelago. The word samurai has had a variety of meanings historically;...

Ieyasu which was not included in Hidetada's cabinet. including William Adams (samurai) and Jan Joosten van Lodensteijn, which Ieyasu entrusted with foreign...

the authority of a samurai, and decreed that William Adams the sailor was dead and that Anjin Miura (三浦按針), a samurai, was born. Adams also received the...

John Blackthorne, loosely based on William Adams, eventually rises in the service of Lord Toranaga to become samurai and hatamoto. Nussbaum, Louis Frédéric...

The following is a list of Samurai and their wives. They are listed alphabetically by their family names. Some changed their names and they are listed...

journeys of William Adams, an Irish sailor named after and inspired by the historic William Adams, an Englishman who became a samurai. Adams pursues the...

is loosely based on the life of the 17th-century English navigator William Adams, who was the first Englishman to visit Japan. The character appears...

diaries of William Adams (1564–1620). However, while Adams served in Tokugawa's army at Sekigahara, he did not become a retainer or a samurai until after...

screenplay, credited to William Roberts, is a remake – in an Old West-style – of Akira Kurosawa's 1954 Japanese film Seven Samurai (itself initially released...

Adams the Pilot: The Life and Times of Captain William Adams. London: Routledge Curzon. ISBN 1-873410-44-1. Milton, Giles (2003). Samurai William: The...

captain off Borneo through which they learned about the arrival of William Adams in Japan.[citation needed] The red seal system appears from at least...

Hasekura Rokuemon Tsunenaga (支倉 六右衛門 常長, 1571–1622) was a kirishitan Japanese samurai and retainer of Date Masamune, the daimyō of Sendai. He was of Japanese...

loosely based on the historical English navigator William Adams, who in Japan rose to become a samurai under Tokugawa Ieyasu, a powerful daimyō who later...

eds.), pp. 191–192. Rogers, Hiromi. Anjin - The Life and Times of Samurai William Adams, 1564-1620. As Seen Through Japanese Eyes. pp. 69–91. ISBN 978-1-898823-85-8...

Tōdō Heisuke. 'Miura' was also the family name given to English sailor William Adams, who became shipwrecked in Japan in the year 1600.[citation needed]...

known in Japanese as Yayōsu was a Dutch colleague of Adams, and was the only known Dutch samurai. Today, Yaesu neighborhood in Chūō, Tokyo is named after...

miniseries is loosely based on the adventures of English navigator William Adams, who journeyed to Japan in 1600 and rose to high rank in the service...

of the Heike (Heike Monogatari), which focus mainly on the aristocratic samurai, whose deeds were apparently more appealing to the audience. Historian...

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with an immediate affiliation to the samurai and their warrior legacies. Their ancestors were themselves samurai and had taken part in the Japanese invasions...

same name, which itself was a remake of Akira Kurosawa’s 1954 film Seven Samurai. The film stars Denzel Washington, Chris Pratt, Ethan Hawke, Vincent D'Onofrio...

The Powerpuff Girls (and its film adaptation), Johnny Bravo, Time Squad, Samurai Jack, The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy, Foster's Home for Imaginary...

visited Japan in 1579. William Adams (1600, England) – The first Englishman to reach Japan. Among the first Westerners to become a samurai, under Shōgun Tokugawa...

character. Mitsuhide is also one of the playable characters in Koei's Samurai Warriors series. He wields a katana, obviously taking techniques from the...

30 Days of Night. He portrayed Samuel Adams in the award-winning HBO miniseries John Adams and Colonel William Stryker in X-Men Origins: Wolverine, a...

role-playing game, Nioh. In missions set during the Siege of Osaka, William ‘Anjin’ Adams confronts and defeats the braves before facing Sanada Yukimura himself...

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system". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved May 19, 2020. Milton, Giles. Samurai William: The Englishman Who Opened Japan. New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux...