IN MEMORY OF
WILLIAM ADAMS, KNOWN AS MIURA ANJIN.
THE FIRST ENGLISHMAN TO SETTLE IN JAPAN.
WHO RESIDED IN A MANSION BUILT ON THIS SPOT.
WHO INSTRUCTED IYEYASU THE FIRST TOKUGAWA
SHOGUN , ON GUNNERY, GEOGRAPHY, MATHEMATICS,
ETS., AND CONSTRUCTED FOR HIM SEVERAL SHIPS
ON THE EUROPEAN MODEL, WHILE RENDERING
VALUABLE SERVICES IN FOREIGN AFFAIRS. AND
WHO MARRIED A JAPANESE LADY, MISS MAGOME.
AND DIED ON APRIL 24 1620, AT THE AGE OF
FIFTY SEVEN YEARS.
REBUILT SOME JAPANESE, MAY 1951