Biografien historischer Persönlichkeiten aus Japan

Textiles of Japan (engl.): The Thomas Murray Collection

Autoren: Thomas Murray, Virginia Soenksen
Vorwort: Anna Jackson

The Diary of Lady Murasaki (Penguin Classics)

Herausgeber: Richard Bowring
Autor: Murasaki Shikibu
Einleitung: Richard Bowring
Übersetzer: Richard Bowring

Hiroshige: Famous Places in the Sixty-odd Provinces: [accordion-fold edition]

Autor: Anne Sefrioui

Samurai William: The Englishman Who Opened Japan

Autor: Giles Milton

In the Fog: A story of love and cannibalism

Autor: Issei Sagawa

Devil Dogs: A New History of the Second World War from the Sunday Times Bestselling Author of SBS Saul David

Autor: Saul David

Tokyo Ink | The Secret Meaning of Irezumi Designs in Japanese Tattoo Art: The Perfect Reference Book for Body Art Professionals and Enthusiasts. (Tattoo Art Collection)

Autoren: Ziggy Quinete, Mayumi Nakagaki, Satoshi Watanabe

Secrets of Itto-ryu: Book One

Autor: Junzo Sasamori
Übersetzer: Mark Hague

Samurai: A History (P.S.)

John Man

Anjin - The Life and Times of Samurai William Adams, 1564-1620.

Hiromi T. Rogers

The Last Manchu: The Autobiography of Henry Pu Yi, Last Emperor of China

Henry Pu Yi

Remembering Aizu: The Testament of Shiba Goro

Shiba Goro

Kamikaze Diaries: Reflections of Japanese Student Soldiers

Emiko Ohnuki-Tierney

Samurai William: The Adventurer Who Unlocked Japan

Giles Milton

Fate carried William Adams a long way from the East London docks amid which he grew up. He joined a voyage to the East, which went disastrously wrong and, in 1600, he was washed up on the shores of Japan, one of the few survivors of the journey and the first Englishman to set foot in the country. Adams was clearly a remarkable man. In a few years he had progressed from shipwrecked castaway to honorary samurai and close advisor to the Shogun, the effective ruler of Japan. When the East India Company, alerted by a letter Adams managed to send, despatched merchants to trade with the Japanese, it was the English samurai who made their mission possible. Adams never returned to England and died in Japan in 1620.

This is an extraordinary story and Milton tells it well. His great gift is that he knows how to highlight those details from the archives that bring both Adams and the long-dead merchant venturers back to life. The secret of Adams's survival was that he adapted readily to Japanese life; the traders did not, as Milton shows us. He records their responses to the wonders of the new civilisation they were encountering but he also quotes the laddish jokes about Japanese women they swapped in letters, the details of their epic boozing and their increasingly desperate attempts to make enough money to keep afloat. It is little wonder that the trading station could not survive without Adams and folded less than three years after his death. Japan was to be a country closed to Europeans for the next two hundred years. The story of Adams and the first contact between England and Japan was forgotten for centuries but, as told in < I> Samurai William, it's one well worth recovering from oblivion. -< I> Nick Rennison

African Samurai: The True Story of Yasuke, a Legendary Black Warrior in Feudal Japan

Thomas Lockley, Geoffrey Girard

Japonius Tyrannus: The Japanese Warlord Oda Nobunaga Reconsidered (Japonica Neerlandica, Volume 8, Band 8)

Jeroen P. Lamers

Adams The Pilot

William Corr

100 Japanese You Should Know (Kodansha Bilingual Books)

Gen Itasaka

Emperor of Japan: Meiji and His World, 1852–1912 (English Edition)

Autor: Donald Keene

The Lone Samurai: The Life of Miyamoto Musashi (English Edition)

Autor: William Scott Wilson

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