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    William Adams (Japanese: ウィリアム・アダムス, Hepburn: Uwiriamu Adamusu, historical kana orthography: ウヰリアム・アダムス; 24 September 1564 – 16 May 1620), better known...
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    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...
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    William James Adams Jr. (born March 15, 1975), known professionally as will.i.am (pronounced "will I am"), is an American rapper, singer, songwriter,...
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    Ieyasu which was not included in Hidetada's cabinet. including William Adams (samurai) and Jan Joosten van Lodensteijn, which Ieyasu entrusted with foreign...
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    Hatamoto (redirect from Bannerman (samurai))
    John Blackthorne, loosely based on William Adams, eventually rises in the service of Lord Toranaga to become samurai and hatamoto. Nussbaum, Louis Frédéric...
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  • 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...
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  • The following is a list of Samurai and their wives. They are listed alphabetically by name. Some have used multiple names, and are listed by their final...
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  • Nioh (category Video games about samurai)
    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...
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  • Relations Rogers, Hiromi (2016). Anjin – The Life and Times of Samurai William Adams. Folkestone: Renaissance Books. [ISBN missing] The voyage of Captain...
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    John Blackthorne (category Fictional samurai)
    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...
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    Jan Joosten van Lodensteijn (category Samurai)
    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...
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    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...
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    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...
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  • 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...
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    Japan, among whom was also the English pilot and samurai, retainer to Tokugawa Ieyasu, William Adams, with whom he wrote he had visited the residence...
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    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...
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  • is loosely based on the historical English navigator William Adams, who rose to become a samurai under Tokugawa Ieyasu, a powerful feudal lord (daimyō)...
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  • Nickleby (Charles Dickens), The Guns of Navarone (Alistair McLean), Seven Samurai and The Magnificent Seven, James Bond (Ian Fleming), Jaws, Star Wars: A...
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  • 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...
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    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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    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]...
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    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...
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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...
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  • The Magnificent Seven (2016 film) (category Works based on Seven Samurai)
    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...
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    The Powerpuff Girls (and its film adaptation), Johnny Bravo, Time Squad, Samurai Jack, The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy, Foster's Home for Imaginary...
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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...
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  • character. Mitsuhide is also one of the playable characters in Koei's Samurai Warriors series. He wields a katana, obviously taking techniques from the...
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  • 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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    Ishida Mitsunari (石田 三成, 1559 – November 6, 1600) was a Japanese samurai and military commander of the late Sengoku period of Japan. He is probably best...
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  • of films based on Arthurian legend Asian period drama films Jidaigeki Samurai cinema Historical drama Historical fantasy Historical fiction Alternate...
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