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Richard Tames - Servant of the Shogun : being the true story of William Adams, pilot and samurai, the first Englishman in Japan

Richard Blaker - The needle-watcher; the Will Adams story, British samurai

pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7729870

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