There is a "Jan Jooss Ten Memorial Statue" on outer moat B1 Avenue in Yaesu Underground Shopping Center.
I think many people know that "Yaesu" is derived from "Jan Jooss Ten".
It was 1600 (Keicho 5) that the navigator Jan Jooss Ten on the Dutch ship Leafde drifted to Japan. Became an international affairs advisor and interpreter for Ieyasu Tokugawa, the area around the given mansion was called "Yatsushiro Su" from his Japanese name "Yayosu" and eventually became "Yaesu". Was.
By the way, "Jan Jooss Ten" is the first name and the last name is "Fan Rhodenstein".
The captain of the Leafde is the Englishman William Adams (Anjin Miura).
Next to the commemorative statue, there is a panel display of the route followed by the Leafde, a picture of a Dutch ship, and a map near Tokyo Station during the Edo period.
In addition, going out of the underground shopping mall to the ground, there is the "Jan Jooss Ten Monument" on 
the median strip at the Nihonbashi 3-chome intersection (lower right in the photo below
).
The two compass rings are combined into the shape of a celestial globe.
The left is Jan Jooss Ten and the right is the Leafde.
At the top of the center, the mark of the Dutch national policy company East India Company at that time is drawn.
This monument was built in 1989 to commemorate the 380th anniversary of Osamu Nichiran.
