![]() The Japanese, who know only the Catholic version of Christianity, are shocked. His breaking of the priest'sĬrucifix shows that the priest is his enemy. Having lost the trial, Blackthorne attacks the Jesuit. Yabu puts Blackthorne and his crew on trial as pirates, using a Jesuit priest to interpret for Blackthorne. ![]() England (and Holland) seek to disrupt Portuguese-Catholic relations with Japan and establish ties of their own through trade and military alliances.Īfter Erasmus is blown ashore on the Japanese coast, Blackthorne and ten other survivors are taken captive by local samurai, Kasigi Omi, until his daimyō and uncle, Kasigi Yabu, arrives. ![]() John Blackthorne, an English pilot serving on the Dutch warship Erasmus, is the first Englishman to reach Japan. The book is divided into six sections, preceded by a prologue in which Blackthorne is shipwrecked near Izu, then alternating between locations in Anjiro, Mishima, Osaka, Yedo, and Yokohama. Toranaga's rise to the shogunate is seen through the eyes of the English sailor John Blackthorne, called Anjin ("Pilot") by the Japanese, whose fictional heroics are loosely based on the historical exploits of William Adams. A major best-seller, by 1990 the book had sold 15 million copies worldwide.īeginning in feudal Japan some months before the critical Battle of Sekigahara in 1600, Shōgun gives an account of the rise of the daimyō "Toranaga" (based upon the actual Tokugawa Ieyasu). ![]() ![]() It is the first novel (by internal chronology) of the author's Asian Saga. ![]()
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