The Mentor 50 - July 1984

Grimesish Grumberlings,
The Anjin-sama and the Admiral Revisited

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Mr. Noda had asked me before my visit to Japan what I wished to see in or in the vicinity of Tokyo. I told him that I should like to revisit the tomb of the Anjin-sama, Will Adams, the Elizabethan seaman who was the first Englishman in Japan. (Clavell, in his novel SHOGUN, based his character Pilot-Major Blackthorne on the real life Adams.) Also, since it is in the same general area, I said that I should like to see again the battleship, Mikasa, Admiral Togo’s flagship during the Russo-Japanese War, 1904-1905.

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