Hiroyuki Sanada
Lord Yoshii Toranaga
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- 10. A Dream of a Dream Apr 23, 2024
- In the wake of a tragic death, Blackthorne finally considers the true nature of Toranaga's plan.
- 9. Crimson Sky Apr 16, 2024
- Mariko arrives in Osaka for the fight of her life; Blackthorne and Yabushige scramble.
- 8. The Abyss of Life Apr 9, 2024
- Toranaga's defeated clan moves to Edo; Blackthorne must decide who he fights for.
Premise. Shōgun follows "the collision of two ambitious men from different worlds, John Blackthorne, a risk-taking English sailor who ends up shipwrecked in Japan, a land whose unfamiliar culture will ultimately redefine him; Lord Toranaga, a shrewd, powerful daimyo, at odds with his own dangerous, political rivals; and Lady Mariko, a woman with invaluable skills but dishonorable family ties ...
Shogun ( English: / ˈʃoʊɡʌn / SHOH-gun; [1] Japanese: 将軍, romanized : shōgun, pronounced [ɕoːɡɯɴ] ⓘ ), officially sei-i taishōgun (征夷大将軍, " Commander-in-Chief of the Expeditionary Force Against the Barbarians"), [2] was the title of the military rulers of Japan during most of the period spanning from 1185 to 1868. [3]
Shōgun: With Cosmo Jarvis, Anna Sawai, Tadanobu Asano, Yûki Kedôin. When a mysterious European ship is found marooned in a nearby fishing village, Lord Yoshii Toranaga discovers secrets that could tip the scales of power and devastate his enemies.
- Adventure, Drama, History
- Hiroyuki Sanada, Cosmo Jarvis, Tadanobu Asano
- 2023
- 2 min
- Premise
- Plot
- Characters
- Historical Accuracy
- Background
- Themes
- Reception
- Adaptations
Shogun portrays, in close parallel to actual history, a disunited 1600 feudal Japan without a Shogun (central ruler) for nearly three decades rent by dynastic clashes and competing factions; both domestic, and more recently from Portugal and Holland. Clavell fictionalizes historical events and figures during the months before the Battle of Sekigaha...
The Dutch Erasmus has been secretly sent to Japan to take over Portugal's lucrative East Asian trade, but having lost many lives, including its captain, it ends up marooned in IzuHarbor. The first Northern Europeans to reach Japan, the surviving Dutch crew with its English pilot John Blackthorne are captured by Izu's daimyō (lord) Yabu. After seizi...
Shogun is a work of historical fiction based upon the power struggle between the successors of Toyotomi Hideyoshi that led to the founding of the Tokugawa shogunate. Clavell based each character on a historical figure, but changed their names in order to add narrative deniability to the story. 1. John "Anjin" Blackthorne – Miura Anjin (William Adam...
Blackthorne's interactions with Toranaga are closely based upon accounts in the diaries of Adams.However, while Adams served in Tokugawa's army at Sekigahara, he did not become a retainer or a samurai until after the battle. Adams never met Hosokawa Gracia, in contrast to Blackthorne's intimate relationship with Toda Mariko. The novel contains nume...
Clavell was an officer in the Royal Artillery during World War II and was a prisoner of war at Changi Prison in Singapore from 1942 to 1945, an experience that formed the basis of his first novel King Rat. Despite this experience, he admired Japan and the Japanese people, and described Shogunas "passionately pro-Japanese." Clavell stated that readi...
The main theme of the novel is the precarious peace of Japan in 1600, a nation consumed by endless civil war and political machinations. The heir to the Taiko (retired Kampaku), the deceased supreme leader of Japan, is too young to rule, and five daimyōs chosen by the late Taiko for their ability to work together hold power as a Council of Regents ...
The New York Times's Webster Schott wrote, "I can't remember when a novel has seized my mind like this one [...] It's almost impossible not to continue to read Shōgun once having opened it". In addition to becoming a best-seller, with more than six million copies of the novel in 14 hardcover and 38 paperback printings by 1980, Shōgun had great impa...
Television
In 1976 Clavell employed Robert Bolt to write a screenplay. Later, in 1978, he selected Eric Bercovici to write a miniseries for NBC. Clavell and Bercovici decided to simplify the story for an American television audience by omitting one of the two major plot lines of the novel, the struggle between Toranaga and the other warlords, and focusing on the adventures of Blackthorne and his romance with Mariko. Due to the focus on Blackthorne's perspective, most of the Japanese dialogue was not sub...
Stage musical
A stage musical adaptationwas produced in 1990.
Games
There have been three computer games based on the Shōgun novel. Two text-based adventure games with sparse graphics were produced for the Amiga and PC, marketed as James Clavell's Shōgun by Infocom and Shōgun by Mastertronic. A unique graphical adventure game, Shōgun, was also produced for systems including the Commodore 64, Amstrad CPC and IBM PC by Lee & Mathias and released by Virgin Entertainmentin 1986. The tabletop game publisher FASA published James Clavell's Shogunin 1983. This was th...
- James Clavell
- United Kingdom, United States
- 1975
- Ed Vebell (illustrated edition only)
May 3, 2024 · Learn about shogun, the Japanese title for a military ruler, and its history from the Heian period to the Meiji Restoration. Find out who were the most influential shoguns, such as Tokugawa Yoshimune, and how they shaped Japan's culture and politics.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Feb 27, 2024 · Learn about the real story of William Adams, the first Englishman to visit Japan, and his relationship with the shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu. Watch the trailer of the new limited series that reimagines the classic novel by James Clavell.
Apr 24, 2024 · Photo by FX/Hulu. Shōgun, FX’s runaway hit of a historical epic set in feudal Japan, aired its final episode Tuesday. By the end of the saga—a fictionalized tale loosely based on the birth of ...
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