ABSTRACT

The volume includes documents, including a description of Japan in the sixteenth century from Harleian mss. 6249, and the letters of William Adams, 1611-17, edited and annotated, and a summary of a narrative by His Excellancy Don Rodrigo de Vivero y Velasco of his residence in the empire, 1608-1610. The supplementary material includes the 1849 annual report. This is a new print-on-demand hardback edition of the volume first published in 1850.

part |2 pages

PART I A DESCRIPTION OF THE EMPIRE

chapter |12 pages

THE KINGDOME OF JAPONIA

part |2 pages

PART II THE LETTERS OF WILLIAM ADAMS

chapter |78 pages

LETTERS OF WILLIAM ADAMS

chapter |82 pages

NOTES

chapter |16 pages

APPENDIX

chapter |7 pages

DIRECTIONS FOR THE BINDER