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The Kent lad who became a samurai

Posted on April 8, 2026 by fechtschule
The Kent lad who became a samurai

He left England as a ship’s navigator and ended up as a feudal lord in Japan. The true story of William Adams is stranger — and more moving — than any fiction. Picture the scene. It’s April 1600, and a battered Dutch ship crawls into a harbour on the coast of Japan. The crew are […]

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