A biomolecular anthropological investigation of William Adams, the first SAMURAI from England

Abstract William Adams (Miura Anjin) was an English navigator who sailed with a Dutch trading fleet to the far East and landed in Japan in 1600. He became a vassal under the Shogun, Tokugawa Ieyasu, was bestowed with a title, lands and swords, and became the first SAMURAI from England. "Miura&q...

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Autores principales:	Fuzuki Mizuno, Koji Ishiya, Masami Matsushita, Takayuki Matsushita, Katherine Hampson, Michiko Hayashi, Fuyuki Tokanai, Kunihiko Kurosaki, Shintaroh Ueda
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:ed8d1b2a58cd45f9a2dc035acf40f9f82021-12-02T16:18:02ZA biomolecular anthropological investigation of William Adams, the first SAMURAI from England10.1038/s41598-020-78723-22045-2322https://doaj.org/article/ed8d1b2a58cd45f9a2dc035acf40f9f82020-12-01T00:00:00Zhttps://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-78723-2https://doaj.org/toc/2045-2322Abstract William Adams (Miura Anjin) was an English navigator who sailed with a Dutch trading fleet to the far East and landed in Japan in 1600. He became a vassal under the Shogun, Tokugawa Ieyasu, was bestowed with a title, lands and swords, and became the first SAMURAI from England. "Miura" comes from the name of the territory given to him and "Anjin" means "pilot". He lived out the rest of his life in Japan and died in Hirado, Nagasaki Prefecture, in 1620, where he was reportedly laid to rest. Shortly after his death, graveyards designated for foreigners were destroyed during a period of Christian repression, but Miura Anjin’s bones were supposedly taken, protected, and reburied. Archaeological investigations in 1931 uncovered human skeletal remains and it was proposed that they were those of Miura Anjin. However, this could not be confirmed from the evidence at the time and the remains were reburied. In 2017, excavations found skeletal remains matching the description of those reinterred in 1931. We analyzed these remains from various aspects, including genetic background, dietary habits, and burial style, utilizing modern scientific techniques to investigate whether they do indeed belong to the first English SAMURAI.Fuzuki MizunoKoji IshiyaMasami MatsushitaTakayuki MatsushitaKatherine HampsonMichiko HayashiFuyuki TokanaiKunihiko KurosakiShintaroh UedaNature PortfolioarticleMedicineRScienceQENScientific Reports, Vol 10, Iss 1, Pp 1-7 (2020)
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spellingShingle	Medicine R Science Q Fuzuki Mizuno Koji Ishiya Masami Matsushita Takayuki Matsushita Katherine Hampson Michiko Hayashi Fuyuki Tokanai Kunihiko Kurosaki Shintaroh Ueda A biomolecular anthropological investigation of William Adams, the first SAMURAI from England
description	Abstract William Adams (Miura Anjin) was an English navigator who sailed with a Dutch trading fleet to the far East and landed in Japan in 1600. He became a vassal under the Shogun, Tokugawa Ieyasu, was bestowed with a title, lands and swords, and became the first SAMURAI from England. "Miura" comes from the name of the territory given to him and "Anjin" means "pilot". He lived out the rest of his life in Japan and died in Hirado, Nagasaki Prefecture, in 1620, where he was reportedly laid to rest. Shortly after his death, graveyards designated for foreigners were destroyed during a period of Christian repression, but Miura Anjin’s bones were supposedly taken, protected, and reburied. Archaeological investigations in 1931 uncovered human skeletal remains and it was proposed that they were those of Miura Anjin. However, this could not be confirmed from the evidence at the time and the remains were reburied. In 2017, excavations found skeletal remains matching the description of those reinterred in 1931. We analyzed these remains from various aspects, including genetic background, dietary habits, and burial style, utilizing modern scientific techniques to investigate whether they do indeed belong to the first English SAMURAI.
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author	Fuzuki Mizuno Koji Ishiya Masami Matsushita Takayuki Matsushita Katherine Hampson Michiko Hayashi Fuyuki Tokanai Kunihiko Kurosaki Shintaroh Ueda
author_facet	Fuzuki Mizuno Koji Ishiya Masami Matsushita Takayuki Matsushita Katherine Hampson Michiko Hayashi Fuyuki Tokanai Kunihiko Kurosaki Shintaroh Ueda
author_sort	Fuzuki Mizuno
title	A biomolecular anthropological investigation of William Adams, the first SAMURAI from England
title_short	A biomolecular anthropological investigation of William Adams, the first SAMURAI from England
title_full	A biomolecular anthropological investigation of William Adams, the first SAMURAI from England
title_fullStr	A biomolecular anthropological investigation of William Adams, the first SAMURAI from England
title_full_unstemmed	A biomolecular anthropological investigation of William Adams, the first SAMURAI from England
title_sort	biomolecular anthropological investigation of william adams, the first samurai from england
publisher	Nature Portfolio
publishDate	2020
url	https://doaj.org/article/ed8d1b2a58cd45f9a2dc035acf40f9f8
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A biomolecular anthropological investigation of William Adams, the first SAMURAI from England

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