Lord of the Golden Fan Author:Christopher Nicole Of all the tales of adventure that have come down to us from the age of Elizabeth the First, the story of Will Adams is perhaps the most exotic and incredible. And yet it is true that this man of Kent, who sailed as pilot of five small trading ships on a twenty-one months' voyage to the fabled Spice Islands of Java and Sumatra, became not on... more »ly the first Englishman to set foot in Japan, albeit more dead than alive, but the lifelong protégé and friend of the reigning Shogun, Iyeyasu.
This novel is a dramatic reconstruction of the tempestuous, exhilarating, gloriously colorful story of Will Adams among the Japanese -- a people so different in all their thoughts, their beliefs and traditions that his life was constantly at stake. By his stature and intelligence he survived the many plots of his enemies and lived to become a Samurai, one of the Lords of Japan. And by his prowess and wise counsel he opened the way to Japan's first contacts with the learning and culture of the West.« less