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Shōgun is a 1975 historical novel by author James Clavell that chronicles the end of Japan’s Azuchi-Momoyama period (1568-1600) and the dawn of the Edo period (1603-1868). ). Loosely based on actual events and figures, Shōgun narrates how European interests and internal conflicts within Japan brought about the Shogunate restorat
John Blackthorne, also known as Anjin (按針, lit. "Pilot", "Steuermann"), is the protagonist of James Clavell's 1975 novel Shōgun.The character is loosely based on the life of the 17th-century English navigator William Adams, who was the first Englishman to visit Japan.
The name Asian Saga was first applied to the series after Shōgun had been published. The purpose of the Asian Saga was, according to Clavell—descendant of a family long in service to the British Empire, and who was a prisoner of war of the Japanese during the Second World War—to tell "the story of the Anglo-Saxon in Asia".
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The book about a British navigator shipwrecked in feudal Japan was massive — over 1,000 pages. ... When FX sent screenwriter Justin Marks a copy of James Clavell’s hit 1975 novel “Shogun ...
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"The Eightfold Fence" (Japanese: 八重垣, Hepburn: Yaegaki) is the fourth episode of the American historical drama television series Shōgun, based on the novel by James Clavell. The episode was written by Nigel Williams and Emily Yoshida, and directed by Frederick E. O. Toye.
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