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.
ShelfmarkVita 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
1.8%
Distinct years the archive depicts, against William Adams’s lifetime (1564 – 1620) — 1.8% of it.
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.
The decisive conflict at the close of Japan's Sengoku Period. Fought between the forces of Tokugawa Ieyasu and Ishida Mitsunari, Tokugawa's victory would pave the way for his being declared Shogun and securing his dynasty's rule over Japan for over two hundred years.