Ito Anjin Festival ...
The Anjin Festival of Itoh City celebrates
the life of our famous son 'Anjin' ...
ウイリアム・アダムス記念碑碑 Itō-shi, Shizuoka-ken 414-0023, Japon https://www.williamadams.fr
松川沿いに下って海岸で出るところ、なぎさ橋際に日本初洋式帆船を建造した三浦按針(英 国 名ウィリアム・アダムス)の事績を記念した小さな公園「按針メモリアルパーク」があ
りま す。
Bust of William Adams by Kenji Shigeoka at Anjin Memorial Park, Ito
Statue of William Adams (Miura Anjin), Japan's only foreign samurai and the man who helped build the first western ships in Japan, from Ito in Shizuoka Prefecture.
William Adams / Miura Anjin Documentary - Trailer.
Trailer for forthcoming documentary series - In Search of the Lost English Samurai - running from June 2019 to May 2020, about Will Adams, the legendary English navigator who sailed to Japan, befriended the Shogun, and became a trusted advisor, with the rank of samurai. The series will be uploaded to coincide with the 400th anniversary of William Adams aka Miura Anjin's passing, which incidentally is the target date for the identification of his grave and remains, lost for centuries.
Additionally, we will be looking at why searching for news of the fate of his Japanese family is now considered a 'lost cause', and whether such a position is tenable, in the light of recent historical and scientific breakthroughs.
MUSIC: Ross Bugden - Dragon Slayer.
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Visit to Kuroshima Island where William Adams (Miura Anjin) first landed in Japan, April 1600
While visiting Oita Prefecture, I was able to visit the island where William Adams' ship landed in April 1600
ITO HARBOR IN IZU, SHIZUOKA JAPAN-伊東市・東海汽船
JUL 30, 2008ー伊東港・東海汽船岸壁
William Adams (September 24, 1564--May 16, 1620), also known in Japanese as Anjin-sama (anjin, pilot; sama, a Japanese honorific) and Miura Anjin (三浦按針: the pilot of Miura), was an English navigator
In the city of Itō, Shizuoka, the Miura Anjin Festival is held all day on August 10.
Today, both Itō and Yokosuka are sister cities of Adams' birth town of Gillingham.
The life of William Adams also inspired James Clavell's Shogun, which was a best-selling novel and then a celebrated TV miniseries.
三浦按針塚 Grave of Miura Anjin 三浦按針塚
三浦按針塚 Grave of Miura Anjin 三浦按針塚
Spring of 1987
New Look at the Life and Death of William Adams
Dr. Richard Irving, a member of the William Adams Club, spoke to In Japan TV about the fascinating life of the first Briton in Japan. He delves deeply into findings from recent excavations and forensic evidence to reveal key facts about the celebrated navigator, trader, and much more, who died in 1620.
Sherlock Investigates Japan - William Adams & Shogun (Nioh)
Join me as I travel to Gillingham, Kent to investigate the birth place of the English Samurai William Adams.
Links:
- Meishin Kyudo Society
- Shizendo Karate
- Kyushin Ryu JiuJutsu
- Shinbu Kan Iaido
- Hiromis Umizawa's Naginata Dojo
Music:
JAPAN TRAVEL GUIDE | 15 THINGS TO DO IN HIROSHIMA, JAPAN | The Tao of David
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JAPAN TRAVEL GUIDE | 15 THINGS TO DO IN HIROSHIMA, JAPAN - If you're planning a Japan trip in 2018, Hiroshima is place that needs to be on your Japan Itinerary! In this video I give you 15 Things to Do in Hiroshima, from the Hiroshima Atomic Bomb Dome, Miyajima Island, Rabbit Island and of course, trying Hiroshima's signature dish, Okonomiyaki and much more!
1 - Atomic Bomb Dome
2 - Hiroshima Peace Park
3 - Meet an A-Bomb Survivor
4 - Cat Café
5 - Miyajima Island (Itsukushima)
6 - Okonomiyaki
7 - Okunoshima (Rabbit Island/Bunny Island)
8 - Little Mermaid (Japanese Bakery)
9 - Takehara
10 - Cherry Blossom (Sakura)
11 - Onomichi
12 - Christmas Day
13 - Nagerekawa
14 - Mazda Museum
15 - Hiroshima Castle
I've spent the last 2 months in Hiroshima doing a Workaway at AkiCafe Hostel and 36 Hostel and teaching English online. This has given me a great opportunity to explore Hiroshima extensively. If you're interested in Japanes history, shrines, temples, days out and more, Hiroshima is the place for you!
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The English Samurai: Will Adams Festival {VlogMas Day 6}
At Gillingham Park for Day 6 of Vlogmas with the Will Adams Festival.
WILL ADAMS FESTIVAL 2016
10 Sep 2016
Celebrate Japanese and English relations with a free, fun-filled, family festival about our very own, Gillingham-born Will Adams.
Take a walk through time, from Tudor England and Tudor maritime history to Japanese culture in the 17th century and Japanese culture in the 21st century.
Every year we celebrate Will Adams, and here’s why:
Miura Anjin, better known as William Adams to most, was born in Gillingham in 1564.
Since childhood Adams had always been fascinated by the ocean and ships, and at the age of 12 began a 12-year apprenticeship in navigation, and seamanship. He joined the Royal Navy in 1588, serving under Sir Francis Drake during the wars with Spain, piloting supply ships to the English fleet during the battles with the Armada.
It was in the summer of 1598, after retiring from the Royal Navy, Adams was appointed Chief Navigator to a fleet of five Dutch ships, one of which was the flagship Hope. In 1600, after a hazardous voyage from west Africa, his ship went aground on the island of Kyushu, Japan. He was captured and taken to the Shogun, questioned and imprisoned as a pirate.
Eventually when he was released, he was ordered to sail to Edo (Tokyo). His knowledge of shipbuilding and navigation had impressed the Shogun so much that he became a trusted aide and diplomatic adviser to the Shogun. He built two western-style ships and taught fire tactics using the captured cannons. As a reward he was granted the honoured title of Samurai and given a small estate in Hemi (modern Yokosuka).
In 1613 he assisted with the setting up of the first trading link between Britain and Japan, when the East India Company’s ship the Clove, arrived in Hirado on 11 June that year.
William Adams died in Japan in 1620, and is still recognised and celebrated as one of the most influential foreigners in Japan during this period.
Since 2000, there has been an annual festival in Gillingham to celebrate the legacy of William Adams, the Samurai with the blue eyes.{Visit Kent}
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Calling All Cars: The General Kills at Dawn / The Shanghai Jester / Sands of the Desert
The radio show Calling All Cars hired LAPD radio dispacher Jesse Rosenquist to be the voice of the dispatcher. Rosenquist was already famous because home radios could tune into early police radio frequencies. As the first police radio dispatcher presented to the public ear, his was the voice that actors went to when called upon for a radio dispatcher role.
The iconic television series Dragnet, with LAPD Detective Joe Friday as the primary character, was the first major media representation of the department. Real LAPD operations inspired Jack Webb to create the series and close cooperation with department officers let him make it as realistic as possible, including authentic police equipment and sound recording on-site at the police station.
Due to Dragnet's popularity, LAPD Chief Parker became, after J. Edgar Hoover, the most well known and respected law enforcement official in the nation. In the 1960s, when the LAPD under Chief Thomas Reddin expanded its community relations division and began efforts to reach out to the African-American community, Dragnet followed suit with more emphasis on internal affairs and community policing than solving crimes, the show's previous mainstay.
Several prominent representations of the LAPD and its officers in television and film include Adam-12, Blue Streak, Blue Thunder, Boomtown, The Closer, Colors, Crash, Columbo, Dark Blue, Die Hard, End of Watch, Heat, Hollywood Homicide, Hunter, Internal Affairs, Jackie Brown, L.A. Confidential, Lakeview Terrace, Law & Order: Los Angeles, Life, Numb3rs, The Shield, Southland, Speed, Street Kings, SWAT, Training Day and the Lethal Weapon, Rush Hour and Terminator film series. The LAPD is also featured in the video games Midnight Club II, Midnight Club: Los Angeles, L.A. Noire and Call of Juarez: The Cartel.
The LAPD has also been the subject of numerous novels. Elizabeth Linington used the department as her backdrop in three different series written under three different names, perhaps the most popular being those novel featuring Det. Lt. Luis Mendoza, who was introduced in the Edgar-nominated Case Pending. Joseph Wambaugh, the son of a Pittsburgh policeman, spent fourteen years in the department, using his background to write novels with authentic fictional depictions of life in the LAPD. Wambaugh also created the Emmy-winning TV anthology series Police Story. Wambaugh was also a major influence on James Ellroy, who wrote several novels about the Department set during the 1940s and 1950s, the most famous of which are probably The Black Dahlia, fictionalizing the LAPD's most famous cold case, and L.A. Confidential, which was made into a film of the same name. Both the novel and the film chronicled mass-murder and corruption inside and outside the force during the Parker era. Critic Roger Ebert indicates that the film's characters (from the 1950s) represent the choices ahead for the LAPD: assisting Hollywood limelight, aggressive policing with relaxed ethics, and a straight arrow approach.
NYSTV - Transhumanism and the Genetic Manipulation of Humanity w Timothy Alberino - Multi Language
Is the real Mark of the Beast a genetic modification kids will want to get (like a tattoo)?
Will genetic mods be a trend and all the cool kids will have them?
Imagine in the not too distant future, where people will voluntarily have their limbs replaced with machines just to compete in the workforce.
Nowadays, robots are more like humans and humans are more like robots. Artificial Intelligence is here and the merging of man and machine has begun.
Implants to make you smarter and remember more? Downloading consciousness into a computer?
The future was yesterday, Timothy Alberino joins David Carrico and John Pounders for an in-depth overview of how the illuminati plan to bring trans humanism into the mainstream and the technology they are employing.
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Calling All Cars: The Bad Man / Flat-Nosed Pliers / Skeleton in the Desert
The radio show Calling All Cars hired LAPD radio dispacher Jesse Rosenquist to be the voice of the dispatcher. Rosenquist was already famous because home radios could tune into early police radio frequencies. As the first police radio dispatcher presented to the public ear, his was the voice that actors went to when called upon for a radio dispatcher role.
The iconic television series Dragnet, with LAPD Detective Joe Friday as the primary character, was the first major media representation of the department. Real LAPD operations inspired Jack Webb to create the series and close cooperation with department officers let him make it as realistic as possible, including authentic police equipment and sound recording on-site at the police station.
Due to Dragnet's popularity, LAPD Chief Parker became, after J. Edgar Hoover, the most well known and respected law enforcement official in the nation. In the 1960s, when the LAPD under Chief Thomas Reddin expanded its community relations division and began efforts to reach out to the African-American community, Dragnet followed suit with more emphasis on internal affairs and community policing than solving crimes, the show's previous mainstay.
Several prominent representations of the LAPD and its officers in television and film include Adam-12, Blue Streak, Blue Thunder, Boomtown, The Closer, Colors, Crash, Columbo, Dark Blue, Die Hard, End of Watch, Heat, Hollywood Homicide, Hunter, Internal Affairs, Jackie Brown, L.A. Confidential, Lakeview Terrace, Law & Order: Los Angeles, Life, Numb3rs, The Shield, Southland, Speed, Street Kings, SWAT, Training Day and the Lethal Weapon, Rush Hour and Terminator film series. The LAPD is also featured in the video games Midnight Club II, Midnight Club: Los Angeles, L.A. Noire and Call of Juarez: The Cartel.
The LAPD has also been the subject of numerous novels. Elizabeth Linington used the department as her backdrop in three different series written under three different names, perhaps the most popular being those novel featuring Det. Lt. Luis Mendoza, who was introduced in the Edgar-nominated Case Pending. Joseph Wambaugh, the son of a Pittsburgh policeman, spent fourteen years in the department, using his background to write novels with authentic fictional depictions of life in the LAPD. Wambaugh also created the Emmy-winning TV anthology series Police Story. Wambaugh was also a major influence on James Ellroy, who wrote several novels about the Department set during the 1940s and 1950s, the most famous of which are probably The Black Dahlia, fictionalizing the LAPD's most famous cold case, and L.A. Confidential, which was made into a film of the same name. Both the novel and the film chronicled mass-murder and corruption inside and outside the force during the Parker era. Critic Roger Ebert indicates that the film's characters (from the 1950s) represent the choices ahead for the LAPD: assisting Hollywood limelight, aggressive policing with relaxed ethics, and a straight arrow approach.
Suspense: Money Talks / Murder by the Book / Murder by an Expert
The program's heyday was in the early 1950s, when radio actor, producer and director Elliott Lewis took over (still during the Wilcox/Autolite run). Here the material reached new levels of sophistication. The writing was taut, and the casting, which had always been a strong point of the series (featuring such film stars as Orson Welles, Joseph Cotten, Henry Fonda, Humphrey Bogart, Judy Garland, Ronald Colman, Marlene Dietrich, Eve McVeagh, Lena Horne, and Cary Grant), took an unexpected turn when Lewis expanded the repertory to include many of radio's famous drama and comedy stars — often playing against type — such as Jack Benny. Jim and Marian Jordan of Fibber McGee and Molly were heard in the episode, Backseat Driver, which originally aired February 3, 1949.
The highest production values enhanced Suspense, and many of the shows retain their power to grip and entertain. At the time he took over Suspense, Lewis was familiar to radio fans for playing Frankie Remley, the wastrel guitar-playing sidekick to Phil Harris in The Phil Harris-Alice Faye Show. On the May 10, 1951 Suspense, Lewis reversed the roles with Death on My Hands: A bandleader (Harris) is horrified when an autograph-seeking fan accidentally shoots herself and dies in his hotel room, and a vocalist (Faye) tries to help him as the townfolk call for vigilante justice against him.
With the rise of television and the departures of Lewis and Autolite, subsequent producers (Antony Ellis, William N. Robson and others) struggled to maintain the series despite shrinking budgets, the availability of fewer name actors, and listenership decline. To save money, the program frequently used scripts first broadcast by another noteworthy CBS anthology, Escape. In addition to these tales of exotic adventure, Suspense expanded its repertoire to include more science fiction and supernatural content. By the end of its run, the series was remaking scripts from the long-canceled program The Mysterious Traveler. A time travel tale like Robert Arthur's The Man Who Went Back to Save Lincoln or a thriller about a death ray-wielding mad scientist would alternate with more run-of-the-mill crime dramas.
You Bet Your Life: Secret Word - Light / Clock / Smile
Julius Henry Groucho Marx (October 2, 1890 -- August 19, 1977) was an American comedian and film and television star. He is known as a master of quick wit and widely considered one of the best comedians of the modern era. His rapid-fire, often impromptu delivery of innuendo-laden patter earned him many admirers and imitators. He made 13 feature films with his siblings the Marx Brothers, of whom he was the third-born. He also had a successful solo career, most notably as the host of the radio and television game show You Bet Your Life. His distinctive appearance, carried over from his days in vaudeville, included quirks such as an exaggerated stooped posture, glasses, cigar, and a thick greasepaint mustache and eyebrows. These exaggerated features resulted in the creation of one of the world's most ubiquitous and recognizable novelty disguises, known as Groucho glasses, a one-piece mask consisting of horn-rimmed glasses, large plastic nose, bushy eyebrows and mustache.
Groucho Marx was, and is, the most recognizable and well-known of the Marx Brothers. Groucho-like characters and references have appeared in popular culture both during and after his life, some aimed at audiences who may never have seen a Marx Brothers movie. Groucho's trademark eye glasses, nose, mustache, and cigar have become icons of comedy—glasses with fake noses and mustaches (referred to as Groucho glasses, nose-glasses, and other names) are sold by novelty and costume shops around the world.
Nat Perrin, close friend of Groucho Marx and writer of several Marx Brothers films, inspired John Astin's portrayal of Gomez Addams on the 1960s TV series The Addams Family with similarly thick mustache, eyebrows, sardonic remarks, backward logic, and ever-present cigar (pulled from his breast pocket already lit).
Alan Alda often vamped in the manner of Groucho on M*A*S*H. In one episode, Yankee Doodle Doctor, Hawkeye and Trapper put on a Marx Brothers act at the 4077, with Hawkeye playing Groucho and Trapper playing Harpo. In three other episodes, a character appeared who was named Captain Calvin Spalding (played by Loudon Wainwright III). Groucho's character in Animal Crackers was Captain Geoffrey T. Spaulding.
On many occasions, on the 1970s television sitcom All In The Family, Michael Stivic (Rob Reiner), would briefly imitate Groucho Marx and his mannerisms.
Two albums by British rock band Queen, A Night at the Opera (1975) and A Day at the Races (1976), are named after Marx Brothers films. In March 1977, Groucho invited Queen to visit him in his Los Angeles home; there they performed '39 a capella. A long-running ad campaign for Vlasic Pickles features an animated stork that imitates Groucho's mannerisms and voice. On the famous Hollywood Sign in California, one of the Os is dedicated to Groucho. Alice Cooper contributed over $27,000 to remodel the sign, in memory of his friend.
In 1982, Gabe Kaplan portrayed Marx in the film Groucho, in a one-man stage production. He also imitated Marx occasionally on his previous TV sitcom Welcome Back, Kotter.
Actor Frank Ferrante has performed as Groucho Marx on stage for more than two decades. He continues to tour under rights granted by the Marx family in a one-man show entitled An Evening With Groucho in theaters throughout the United States and Canada with piano accompanist Jim Furmston. In the late 1980s Ferrante starred as Groucho in the off-Broadway and London show Groucho: A Life in Revue penned by Groucho's son Arthur. Ferrante portrayed the comedian from age 15 to 85. The show was later filmed for PBS in 2001. Woody Allen's 1996 musical Everyone Says I Love You, in addition to being named for one of Groucho's signature songs, ends with a Groucho-themed New Year's Eve party in Paris, which some of the stars, including Allen and Goldie Hawn, attend in full Groucho costume. The highlight of the scene is an ensemble song-and-dance performance of Hooray for Captain Spaulding—done entirely in French.
In the last of the Tintin comics, Tintin and the Picaros, a balloon shaped like the face of Groucho could be seen in the Annual Carnival.
In the Italian horror comic Dylan Dog, the protagonist's sidekick is a Groucho impersonator whose character became his permanent personality.
The BBC remade the radio sitcom Flywheel, Shyster and Flywheel, with contemporary actors playing the parts of the original cast. The series was repeated on digital radio station BBC7. Scottish playwright Louise Oliver wrote a play named Waiting For Groucho about Chico and Harpo waiting for Groucho to turn up for the filming of their last project together. This was performed by Glasgow theatre company Rhymes with Purple Productions at the Edinburgh Fringe and in Glasgow and Hamilton in 2007-08. Groucho was played by Scottish actor Frodo McDaniel.
The Great Gildersleeve: House Hunting / Leroy's Job / Gildy Makes a Will
The Great Gildersleeve (1941--1957), initially written by Leonard Lewis Levinson, was one of broadcast history's earliest spin-off programs. Built around Throckmorton Philharmonic Gildersleeve, a character who had been a staple on the classic radio situation comedy Fibber McGee and Molly, first introduced on Oct. 3, 1939, ep. #216. The Great Gildersleeve enjoyed its greatest success in the 1940s. Actor Harold Peary played the character during its transition from the parent show into the spin-off and later in a quartet of feature films released at the height of the show's popularity.
On Fibber McGee and Molly, Peary's Gildersleeve was a pompous windbag who became a consistent McGee nemesis. You're a haa-aa-aa-aard man, McGee! became a Gildersleeve catchphrase. The character was given several conflicting first names on Fibber McGee and Molly, and on one episode his middle name was revealed as Philharmonic. Gildy admits as much at the end of Gildersleeve's Diary on the Fibber McGee and Molly series (Oct. 22, 1940).
He soon became so popular that Kraft Foods—looking primarily to promote its Parkay margarine spread — sponsored a new series with Peary's Gildersleeve as the central, slightly softened and slightly befuddled focus of a lively new family.
Premiering on August 31, 1941, The Great Gildersleeve moved the title character from the McGees' Wistful Vista to Summerfield, where Gildersleeve now oversaw his late brother-in-law's estate and took on the rearing of his orphaned niece and nephew, Marjorie (originally played by Lurene Tuttle and followed by Louise Erickson and Mary Lee Robb) and Leroy Forester (Walter Tetley). The household also included a cook named Birdie. Curiously, while Gildersleeve had occasionally spoken of his (never-present) wife in some Fibber episodes, in his own series the character was a confirmed bachelor.
In a striking forerunner to such later television hits as Bachelor Father and Family Affair, both of which are centered on well-to-do uncles taking in their deceased siblings' children, Gildersleeve was a bachelor raising two children while, at first, administering a girdle manufacturing company (If you want a better corset, of course, it's a Gildersleeve) and then for the bulk of the show's run, serving as Summerfield's water commissioner, between time with the ladies and nights with the boys. The Great Gildersleeve may have been the first broadcast show to be centered on a single parent balancing child-rearing, work, and a social life, done with taste and genuine wit, often at the expense of Gildersleeve's now slightly understated pomposity.
Many of the original episodes were co-written by John Whedon, father of Tom Whedon (who wrote The Golden Girls), and grandfather of Deadwood scripter Zack Whedon and Joss Whedon (creator of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Firefly and Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog).
The key to the show was Peary, whose booming voice and facility with moans, groans, laughs, shudders and inflection was as close to body language and facial suggestion as a voice could get. Peary was so effective, and Gildersleeve became so familiar a character, that he was referenced and satirized periodically in other comedies and in a few cartoons.