Will Adams builds ships for the Shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu. Tokugawa Ieyasu, 1543 - 1616. Founder and first shogun of the Tokugawa shogunate of Japan. William Adams, 1564 - 1620, known in Japanese as Miura Anjin (the pilot of Miura). English navigator, the first of his nation to reach Japan during a five-ship expedition for the Dutch East India Company From Hutchinson's History of the Nations, published 1915.