then I read a book on the Franciscans and found out the Jesuits were gunrunning in those days. then I got interested in Jesuits and I read a book on Jesuits. then it turned out he was called Anjin-San, and there was a street named after this fellow. then also there was a book published, one of his logs, from one of the trips from Japan to Siam. I found five letters he wrote back to his wife, that were never delivered, to anybody's knowledge. "I found out it was Will Adams, so then I went to the library and looked up Will Adams. And I thought, well, what I'll do is I'll start reading." "It said, 'In 1600, an Englishman went to Japan and became a Samurai,'" Clavell said. LOS ANGELES - James Clavell, his imagination awash with plans for the modern-day Asian chronicle that was to be his third novel, picked up one of his 9-year-old daughter's school books one afternoon in London, and came upon an intriguing bit of history.
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