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

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" come...

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Autores principales: Mizuno, Fuzuki, Ishiya, Koji, Matsushita, Masami, Matsushita, Takayuki, Hampson, Katherine, Hayashi, Michiko, Tokanai, Fuyuki, Kurosaki, Kunihiko, Ueda, Shintaroh
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7729870/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33303940
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-78723-2
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author Mizuno, Fuzuki
Ishiya, Koji
Matsushita, Masami
Matsushita, Takayuki
Hampson, Katherine
Hayashi, Michiko
Tokanai, Fuyuki
Kurosaki, Kunihiko
Ueda, Shintaroh
author_facet Mizuno, Fuzuki
Ishiya, Koji
Matsushita, Masami
Matsushita, Takayuki
Hampson, Katherine
Hayashi, Michiko
Tokanai, Fuyuki
Kurosaki, Kunihiko
Ueda, Shintaroh
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description 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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spelling pubmed-77298702020-12-14 A biomolecular anthropological investigation of William Adams, the first SAMURAI from England Mizuno, Fuzuki Ishiya, Koji Matsushita, Masami Matsushita, Takayuki Hampson, Katherine Hayashi, Michiko Tokanai, Fuyuki Kurosaki, Kunihiko Ueda, Shintaroh Sci Rep Article 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. Nature Publishing Group UK 2020-12-10 /pmc/articles/PMC7729870/ /pubmed/33303940 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-78723-2 Text en © The Author(s) 2020 Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.
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Mizuno, Fuzuki
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Hampson, Katherine
Hayashi, Michiko
Tokanai, Fuyuki
Kurosaki, Kunihiko
Ueda, Shintaroh
A biomolecular anthropological investigation of William Adams, the first SAMURAI from England
title 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_short 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
topic Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7729870/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33303940
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-78723-2
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