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John Blackthorne, also known as Anjin (按針, lit. "Pilot", " Steuermann ") , is the protagonist of James Clavell 's 1975 novel Shōgun . The character is loosely based on the life of the 17th-century English navigator William Adams , who was the first Englishman to visit Japan.
Statue of the San Buena Ventura ship at Anjin Memorial Park. In 1610, after the Nossa Senhora da Graça incident, Ieyasu replaced Jesuit translator João Rodrigues Tçuzu with William Adams as his counselor of affairs with the Europeans. [45] In the same year, the 120-ton Japanese warship San Buena Ventura was lent to the Spanish
John Blackthorne's new title "hatamoto" in 'Shogun' is rooted in real Japanese history, and marks a significant change for the character. Here's what it means.
Anjin is the Japanese word for pilot (of ships, airplanes and similar things). It may also refer to: Anjin Miura, an honorific name given to the sailor William Adams (1564-1620) The name given to the character Blackthorne in James Clavell's 1975 novel Shōgun "Anjin" , the first episode of the 2024 miniseries adapted from the book
"Anjin" (Japanese: 按針) is the series premiere of the American historical drama television series Shōgun, based on the novel by James Clavell. The episode was written by series developers Rachel Kondo and Justin Marks , and directed by co-executive producer Jonathan van Tulleken.
A hatamoto (旗本, "Guardian of the banner") was a high ranking samurai in the direct service of the Tokugawa shogunate of feudal Japan. [1] While all three of the shogunates in Japanese history had official retainers, in the two preceding ones, they were referred to as gokenin .
The Hōjō clan (Japanese: 北条氏, Hepburn: Hōjō-shi) was a Japanese samurai family who controlled the hereditary title of shikken of the Kamakura shogunate between 1203 and 1333. Despite the title, in practice the family wielded actual political power in Japan during this period compared to both the Kamakura shoguns , or the Imperial ...
The home of a gokenin. A gokenin (御家人) was initially a vassal of the shogunate of the Kamakura and the Muromachi periods. [1] In exchange for protection and the right to become jitō (manor's lord), a gokenin had in times of peace the duty to protect the imperial court and Kamakura, then political capital of Japan.