To: SeekAndFind
This latter group included William Adams from England and Jan Joosten van Lodensteijn of the Netherlands, two navigators who were stranded in Japan together in 1600. When neither man was allowed to leave the country, they ended up serving the shogunate and rising to the rank of samurai.These two form a real-life basis for the Blackthorne character in Shogun?
7 posted on
03/31/2024 8:52:50 PM PDT by
Rummyfan
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To: Rummyfan
These two form a real-life basis for the Blackthorne character in Shogun? First thing I thought of.
21 posted on
04/01/2024 6:38:48 AM PDT by
TangoLimaSierra
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