This is a fantasy drawing of William Adams from a British booklet called 'William Adams: The Pilot Major of Gillingham, the First Englishman who Discovered Japan, (published by Gillingham: Mackays, 1934).' According to the scholarly paper William Adams and Early Enterprise in Japan:
Some in England were embarrassed that no similar monument to Adams existed in his native land and after years of lobbying a memorial clock was erected in Gillingham in honour of a native son who, according to the booklet produced for the dedication ceremony in 1934, a time of Anglo-Japanese alienation, had “discovered” Japan. Like the inscription at the anjin-tsuka, the booklet is a product of fantasy and hyperbole, only much more so. […] The booklet also contains a drawing of Adams, pure invention as no contemporary image of him exists, depicting him standing on a ship's deck, chart in right hand, left hand resting on sword, gazing resolutely towards the unknown horizon.
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(Drawing of <a href="/wiki/William_Adams" title="William Adams">William Adams</a>. {{PD-Art}})
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این اثر هنری دوبعدی که در این نگاره دیده میشود بخاطر تاریخ درگذشت پدیدآورنده آن یا تاریخ انتشارش هماکنون در سراسر جهان در مالکیت عمومی قرار دارد و استفاده از آن آزاد است.
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این اثر در کشورهایی و مناطقی که مدت زمان حق تکثیر، عمر پدیدآورنده بعلاوهٔ ۱۰۰ سال یا کمتر بعد از مرگ او است، در مالکیت عمومی قرار دارد.
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