After more than two years of hard work in marathons and yachts, Kanpei Ma reached a goal around the world and saw a TV that was cheering, reminded me of the Leafde. Approximately 400 years ago, the Dutch ship Leafde sailed in search of a new product sales channel to the Orient, and after about two years of voyage, drifted to Bungo Sashi cloth (Sashio, Usuki City, Oita Prefecture). The navigator British William Adams (Anjin Miura) and the Dutchman Jan Jooss Ten were both heavily used as diplomatic advisors to Ieyasu Tokugawa, Adams was in Anjin-cho, and Jooss Ten was in Yatsushiro, the etymology of Yaesu. I know that you have been given a mansion on the banks of Chuo-ku. Monuments are also built in various places, but the drifting of the Leafde was a major incident that decorated the first page of 
Yoshifumi Osamu of Japan and the UK. In the following, I will write down what is related to this.
I often see a brief description that says, "I drifted ashore on the coast of Bungo due to a storm in 1600 (1600), but the voyage since I sailed in Rotterdam in June 1598 is a harsh word. Severe weather, wind and rags, food shortage, berief necrosis, starvation and frozen death, fighting with islanders in the enemy country of Portugal-controlled area ... It was like a picture of turbulence. The fleet of the five Galleon ships will change from the original Cape bound for Orient to Japan via the Magellan Strait (in the break that winters for five months here). In the end, only the Leafde arrived in Japan, and it was a tragic voyage with only 24 survivors (three more died the next day) when the crew drifted ashore and 6 people standing up. This area is found in Adams' letters and biography, and is also depicted in Ichiro Shiraishi's novel "Voyager".
William Adams is said to be "the first Englishman to come to Japan", and there are some books titled this (written by P. G. Rogers), but there seems to be an objection. In Kaoru Suzuki's "Ieyasu Tokugawa's Spanish Diplomacy", "Kojien" states that 20 years before Adams came to Japan in 1580 (1580), a British came to Hizen Hirato and had trade for about 20 years. I'm introducing the description. (The monument of Adams, built by the British Army in Ito City in 1947, seems to be described as "the first Englishman to settle in Japan.") According to the book, the Leafde is said to be "stranded" in Japan, but in Dutch history, it is described as "arrival" because it aimed at Japan with a sense of purpose. I see!
The Leafde (mercy and love) was originally called the Elasmus, with a wooden statue of Elasmus attached to the stern. This wooden statue has been removed after drifting ashore and has been worshiped for many years at Tatsue-in Temple in Sano City, Tochigi Prefecture, and is now kept at the Tokyo National Museum. It's a strange life like or even more than the crew. The commemorative statue of the Leafde in Marunouchi, Chiyoda-ku is well attached to the statue of Elasmus and boshiki. The art is fine!
It is said that the mansion of Jan Jooss Ten was located between Baba Sanmon and Wadakuramon, on the Yatsushirosu bank on the east bank of Uchibori, so unfortunately it is not in Chuo-ku, but `` Yaesu '' disappeared from Chiyoda-ku Because Chuo-ku used the place name of Yaesu as the name of the town after the war, his monument is at the intersection of Yae Street and Yae Street. And both have portraits. By the way, Adams seems to have no portrait left.) Inadvertently, more and more people 
may misunderstand that Jan Jooss Ten's mansion was located in Yaesu, Chuo-ku in the future. The commemorative statue of the Yaesu Underground Shopping Center seems to have been "drifting" all over the place, but it seems that he found a place of rest next to Yaesu South Exit Ramen Shop. In the section of the Yatsushiro Sogawagishi of the Edo Famous Zoukai, Jan Jooss Ten is described as "Yangyaus Hachikuwan" (probably incorrectly), so it is the same as the eight government who became the name of Yakancho It seems that there is a theory to misunderstand. The same Gesshin Saito is also clearly written as a separate person in Takee Chronology. Jan Jooss Ten (Yangko) is the correct one for Jan Jooss Ten van Rhodenstein? It seems like the name.
[Photo] From the top
・From Wadakuramon, see Baba Sanmon
・The ruins of Adams mansion in Anhari-cho (Nihonbashimurocho 1-chome)
・Reefde Monument in Marunouchi 2-chome
・The statue of Elsmus at the stern
・Jooss Ten Monument on Yaesu Street
・Statue of Jooss Ten in the Yaesu Underground Shopping Center
