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William Adams: From ENGLISH CASTAWAY to JAPANESE LORD
Without a doubt, James Clavell’s novel "Shōgun" has become a certified classic over the past 5 decades, one that has proven to be both culturally impactful AND creatively inspiring. But… What was it that inspired Clavell to come up with this near-1200 page masterpiece? Well actually, the story of John Blackthorne, while obviously fictitious, is rooted much deeper in actual history than one might think! That is because it is very much based on the life of William Adams, an English navigator who not only became the first Englishman to ever reach Japan, but who also ended up staying in Japan for two whole decades, forging a remarkably close relationship with the country’s most powerful leader, fully embracing a country and culture that could NOT have been more different from what he experienced back home, and arguably becoming the most legendary foreigner that ever lived in Japan!
In today’s video, we travel from a small town in southern England all the way to the Land of the Rising Sun, guided by the REAL story of the “Anjin”, one that, while certainly less action-packed, is not THAT much less interesting than what James Clavell and the creators of the 2024 FX adaptation were able to come up with!
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SOURCES:
Book: "Anjin - The Life and Times of Samurai William Adams" by Hiromi Rogers
www.britannica.com/biography/William-Adams
www.williamadams.fr/the-life-of-william-adams/
www.achurchnearyou.com/church/9897/page/73691/view/
archive.org/details/letterswrittenby00mura
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ry%C5%8D#:~:text=On%20the%20other%20hand%2C%20the,yen%20in%20terms%20of%20rice
williamadamsclub.org/
www.grips.ac.jp/teacher/oono/hp/docu03/sakoku.pdf
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jagatara-bumi
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Adams_(pilot)
anthony.sogang.ac.kr/LettersWilliamAdams.html
CHAPTERS:
00:00 - Intro
04:30 - England
05:34 - The Expedition
08:26 - Arriving in Japan
13:02 - Miura Anjin
22:42 - East India Company
26:29 - Final Adventures
30:32 - The Legend Lives On
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КОМЕНТАРІ

  • @joellemichaela
    @joellemichaela 17 годин тому

    Chrono cross theme!

  • @Bambisgf77
    @Bambisgf77 День тому

    These are incredibly well done mini documentaries! In another note it amazes me how the Chinese / Japanese are able to sit on their legs for long periods of time! My feet fall “asleep” if I sit cross-cross for more than a few minutes certainly long before I could finish a meal! 😮

  • @CORLEONESPORTS97
    @CORLEONESPORTS97 День тому

    shits cool as hell, i have a katana, it needs blood or ill be cursed... the blade needs blood..lol

  • @MixPlayZ-03K
    @MixPlayZ-03K День тому

    Are you German?

  • @zechariahp8206
    @zechariahp8206 День тому

    Now you just have a bunch of wimpy men who can't get laid.

  • @hermit7903
    @hermit7903 2 дні тому

    I just found your channel. This is good stuff!

  • @JoJo-sp9sh
    @JoJo-sp9sh 2 дні тому

    100th comment

  • @dante8478
    @dante8478 2 дні тому

    MEMORIES BROKEN TRUTH GOES USPOKEN

  • @paulocruz5834
    @paulocruz5834 3 дні тому

    Those damned faitless dutch

  • @leikilimaile2565
    @leikilimaile2565 3 дні тому

    first off mahalo for the vid, seeing hawaii how it was when i grew up was cool, Hawaii is more corrupt now then ever just look at the governors for the past couple elections and the other pilautitions across the islands, check out kealoha the old police chief and his wife a major lawyer, now take a look at keith kaneshiro brah what justice is their in hawaii since the take over. they sacrifice the people and the aina for their own greed.

  • @Armilus666
    @Armilus666 3 дні тому

    100% the curse objects are alive as well like when a dog tastes blood for the first time. But very different at some point demons will take over you once you make those choices and the weapon.

  • @nerdvana101
    @nerdvana101 3 дні тому

    It's not all shell suits and samurai swords

  • @beansmeup
    @beansmeup 4 дні тому

    1 hour and 27 mins.... its like a reward

  • @user-qt7nq5xl1m
    @user-qt7nq5xl1m 4 дні тому

    The Asia saga by clavell is one of my favorite reads of my 60 years of life. Thousands of pages of stimulation and exciting entertainment. It is a series of books that completely remove you from the world you live in and take you to a different time. I probably read the first of the books when I was 17 and remember them to this day. Maybe, just maybe I'll read them again

  • @bento9007
    @bento9007 4 дні тому

    Praise God

  • @AngryMothNoises
    @AngryMothNoises 4 дні тому

    bro is realling using AI in the first image when they are hundreds of art to use...... You use other real art through out.

  • @Noneofyourbusiness.-iw6zb
    @Noneofyourbusiness.-iw6zb 4 дні тому

    8:40 That sounds an awful lot like schizophrenia, these things still happens today "God told me to do this and that"

  • @marcussparticus8380
    @marcussparticus8380 4 дні тому

    23 AD is 300 years into the future. It should be 23 BC or in modern terms BCE.

  • @Kunfucious577
    @Kunfucious577 4 дні тому

    It’s very interesting that the artists are always the rebels pushing the boundaries.

  • @michaell8002
    @michaell8002 4 дні тому

    Seijun Suzuki films😊🔥

  • @fluphybunny930
    @fluphybunny930 4 дні тому

    "peace loving nature of the Japanese people" Are you kidding! The Japanese haven't fully admitted to their atrocities in WW2. Absolutely not a peace loving people

  • @JohnDoe-iq5xv
    @JohnDoe-iq5xv 4 дні тому

    Piece Loving Nature of the Japanese population?!? Did I miss something??? 22:55

  • @lessthanzer0828
    @lessthanzer0828 4 дні тому

    ah yes the porter

  • @jiyushugi1085
    @jiyushugi1085 4 дні тому

    Tsujigiri was the term Japanese fighter pilots used when they came across and shot a slow cargo plane or other victim encountered at random.

  • @rubberduck306
    @rubberduck306 5 днів тому

    Deity is pronounced DEY-IT-EE not DEETEE

  • @bento9007
    @bento9007 5 днів тому

    Praise God

  • @monikagrosch9632
    @monikagrosch9632 5 днів тому

    I still prefer the ‘old’ version

  • @harlemdeni
    @harlemdeni 6 днів тому

    AMAZING VIDEO. Almost made me cry like a reverse Don Fry there at the end. If documentaries were shoot like this, I would've watched each and every one. Beautiful work, bro! Cheers from Macedonia!

  • @fuckboi_killa
    @fuckboi_killa 6 днів тому

    Shouts Godspeed You! Black Emperor The film and the band

  • @selfactualizer2099
    @selfactualizer2099 6 днів тому

    1. absolutely youre a dork who annoys his parents with stories from the internet 2. school gangs have always been a thing. i moved a lot every school year. every school had a group of kids who thought they were bad. regardless of how bad they got they were all stupid because. 3. a squad of kids is less threatening than a squad of monkeys. 4. japans yakuza is popular in media but not any more "badass" than any other countries gangs. if anything yakuza are a bit sensitive and emotional. like the entirety of japanese culture.

  • @charlotta2hotta
    @charlotta2hotta 6 днів тому

    This was amazing. Thank you.

  • @themariusangelo
    @themariusangelo 6 днів тому

    Ragnarok online and periphery got me into the lore lol

  • @crazyd4ve875
    @crazyd4ve875 7 днів тому

    I got a backpiece in this style when I was 18 :)

  • @nilsteegen33
    @nilsteegen33 7 днів тому

    An actual story about a foreigner becoming a samurai. Not like the fairytales of Yasuke

  • @aaron285
    @aaron285 7 днів тому

    myth and legends are often based on true events????

  • @lowrhyan567
    @lowrhyan567 7 днів тому

    Estes fracos não duram uma semana no Brasil.

  • @eathanlevek4834
    @eathanlevek4834 7 днів тому

    So what happened to Catholicism in Japan? Were there any churches left or did Japan completely eradicate them?

  • @delarow
    @delarow 7 днів тому

    Awesome video, super thankful!🎉🎉🎉

  • @annon231
    @annon231 7 днів тому

    I thank you for your excellent documentary. I binge-watch many subscriptions and now you are a regular watch for pleasure. Your channel is educative, enthralling, and a great pleasure. BRAVO.

  • @alesh2275
    @alesh2275 7 днів тому

    There is no evidence that William Adams was ever a samurai.

    • @kuronoch.1441
      @kuronoch.1441 3 дні тому

      There is, he was made hatamoto of what today is Yokosuka in Kanagawa Prefecture, and there were numerous statues and plaques dedicated to him there and in his burial place. By the way, being a hatamoto required that one had to be a samurai beforehand.

  • @mikehunt2162
    @mikehunt2162 7 днів тому

    I didn't watch this because of the series "Shogun."

  • @sabaidaniel555
    @sabaidaniel555 7 днів тому

    Dope (pun intended)!!

  • @bakonax7080
    @bakonax7080 8 днів тому

    The original weeb

  • @Oscuros
    @Oscuros 8 днів тому

    I collect history talks for an archive and Japanese history is hard to find so far in good quality. however, I have also seen your crime pieces, they are all good, but the school gangs one was particularly useful, since you were good enough to link the styles worn with anime depictions. I thought a lot about what was depicted in Akira regarding the reform school they were in. I know that they were in a biker gang, but I mean about the fact that there was a crisis with the youth in that mileau too, it is expanded on in the manga, of course, but only indirectly in there too.

  • @Vicious_void
    @Vicious_void 8 днів тому

    13:55 i was playing persona5 on mute to listen to this video only to hear the iconic music here 🔥

  • @dlucas527
    @dlucas527 8 днів тому

    I would love to have a full body tattoo the traditional way but I hear artists are so expensive and it takes a long time. I visit Japan for the first time tomorrow. I want to make the most of time in the country. There is so much to experience. Everyone loves Japan.

  • @PatriciaDraven71
    @PatriciaDraven71 8 днів тому

    A very good read in connection to this, is the book "In the service of the Shogun"

  • @royalvarez7701
    @royalvarez7701 8 днів тому

    This is very interesting. I saw the name Muramasa and only thought of Marvel comics where the muramasa blade is the one true blade that could kill wolverine, deadpool and anyone with a healing factor. A better sword then the carbonadium blade. But learning about this is really fun!

  • @nont18411
    @nont18411 8 днів тому

    Tokugawa Ieyasu probably could be considered as a protagonist of Sengoku era. He’s smart, competent, visionary, evil, won the war and most importantly, had the thickest plot armor in all Japan. Like there were many circumstances that seemed too lucky for him. For examples, Takeda Shingen really bought into the empty-fort tactic by Ieyasu and left even though he was seconds away from erasing the Tokugawa clan from existence, Hideyoshi somehow allowed him to keep his troops in Edo while Hideyoshi led his own team to invade Korea which made Ieyasu the strongest military power in Japan by default once Hideyoshi lost the Imjin war, or the accidental arrival of William Adams which gave him the cannons he needed to win Sekigahara and Osaka and a perfect excuse to get rid of the troublesome Portugueses.

  • @nont18411
    @nont18411 8 днів тому

    “My name is Blackthorne but I’m white af.” - John Blackthorne