| Description |
1 online resource : illustrations (chiefly color), maps |
| Contents |
Half Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Plate section faces; Preface; Acknowledgements; List of Illustrations; Prologue; 1 The Lure of the East; 2 Life or Death; 3 Life or Death; 4 The Shogun Decides; 5 The Battle of Sekigahara; 6 The Shogun's Adviser; 7 An Exceptional Honour; 8 Samurai Life and Nuptials; 9 The Battle for Naval Supremacy; 10 Trade with the Dutch; 11 A Toehold for the Spanish; 12 Betrayed; 13 A Welcome for the English; 14 An Agonizing Decision; 15 A Political Earthquake; 16 Private Disgrace and Company Debt; 17 War and Death; 18 Epilogue; Afterword; Bibliography; Index |
| Summary |
The year is 1600. It is April and Japan's iconic cherry trees are in full flower. A battered ship drifts on the tide into Usuki Bay in southern Japan. On board, barely able to stand, are twenty-three Dutchmen and one Englishman, the remnants of a fleet of five ships and 500 men that had set out from Rotterdam in 1598. The Englishman was William Adams, later to be known as Anjin Miura by the Japanese, whose subsequent transformation from wretched prisoner to one of the Shogun's closest advisers is the centrepiece of this book |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed December 9, 2016) |
| Subject |
Adams, William, 1564-1620.
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| SUBJECT |
Adams, William, 1564-1620 fast |
| Subject |
British -- Japan -- Biography
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Historical
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HISTORY / Asia / Japan
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Employees
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British
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| SUBJECT |
Japan -- Officials and employees -- Foreign countries -- Biography
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| Subject |
Japan
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| Genre/Form |
Biographies
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781898823391 |
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1898823391 |
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