James Clavell's Shōgun is a 1975 novel fictionalizing incidents and personages in 17th century feudal Japan effecting the Edo period's advent. The third published, and the first chronologically placed, book in Clavell's six-volume Asian Saga, by 1980 it sold six million copies worldwide. It has been made into two TV miniseries (1980 and 2024), a stage musical, as well as one board game and three v... Wikipedia