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Characters inspired by William Adams

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1 title in the archive · first depicted 1600

William Adams is never portrayed directly in the archive. The title here gives a fictional (or alternate historical) character their historical role, character or manner.

Lived1564 – 1620

English navigator, the first of his countrymen to reach Japan, who became a retainer of Tokugawa Ieyasu.

Shelfmark Vita LXXXI

1
title
1 series (10 eps) · 1 as inspiration
4.3/5
average rating
across 1 rated title
9h 59m
on screen
across 1 title

1 year of a 56 year life depicted onscreen

Distinct years the archive depicts, against William Adams’s lifetime (1564 – 1620) — 1.8% of it.

Depicted in

1600

A series counts once, regardless of how many of its episodes feature them.

Historical Threads

A thread follows one event or historical theme across the archive, wherever and whenever it appears. Pulling a thread opens up a narrowed timeline view filtered to every year that thread touches.