Shōgen Mukai

Tadakatsu Mukai (1582 - 1641), more known under the name of Shōgen Mukai (in Japanese: 向井将監, Mukai Shōgen ) was the Admiral Japanese fleet under the reign of the Shogun Ieyasu Tokugawa, at the beginning of the 17th century.

Biography

Between 1604 and 1606, under the command of Ieyasu, Shōgen Mukai, which is the Commander-in-chief of the Navy of Uraga, built, with the assistance of William Adams and of the carpenters of the town of Itō the first Japanese ship of European style, a counterpart of 80 barrels of the Liefde which ran not very front. One second counterpart east is then ordered, of 120 barrels this time, in order to be able to sail on the ocean. This last ship is, in 1610, lent to a Spanish embassy whose ship had made shipwreck, and crosses the Pacific Ocean, famous in San Buena Ventura .

Mukai also takes part in the preparation of the embassy of Tsunenaga Hasekura in America and Europe of 1615, by giving its support for the mission and by supplying its Carpenter as a chief for the construction of the San Juan Bautista .

Richard Cocks, directing English foreign post with Hirado pays to have discussed with him and William Adams an invasion the Filipino by the Japanese forces in 1616. Cocks notes about Mukai which this one counts among “the best friends than we have in Japan. ”

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