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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.
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
Shōgun: The Musical is a musical with a book and lyrics by John Driver [1] and music by Paul Chihara. [1]Based on James Clavell's 1975 novel [1] and the 1980 television mini-series of the same name, the musical centers on shipwrecked English sea captain John Blackthorne, who finds himself drawn into a political power play while involved in an illicit affair with a married noblewoman in 17th ...
John Blackthorne in FX's Shōgun is based on William Adams, a real-life sailor and navigator who was instrumental in the true story of James Clavell's book.
John Blackthorne: Shōgun: An English sailor who travels to Japan and is given the titles of samurai and hatamoto based on the real life story of William Adams. Date masamune: Sengoku Basara: A fictional samurai loosely based on the real historical figure Date Masamune. Jack Fletcher Young Samurai
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, who must prove her value and ...
The player assumes the role of John Blackthorne, pilot-major of the Dutch trading ship Erasmus. During a voyage in the Pacific Ocean in the year 1600, the Erasmus is shipwrecked in Japan . Blackthorne must survive in a land where every custom is as unfamiliar to him as the language.
Blackthorne is a video game from Blizzard Entertainment. Blackthorne may also refer to: Blackthorne (band), American rock group; Blackthorne Publishing, comic book publisher; John Blackthorne, main character of the novel Shōgun and the later miniseries adaptation of it; Paul Blackthorne, British actor