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Tokugawa Ieyasu [a] [b] (born Matsudaira Takechiyo; [c] January 31, 1543 – June 1, 1616) was the founder and first shōgun of the Tokugawa shogunate of Japan, which ruled from 1603 until the Meiji Restoration in 1868.
Yoshi Toranaga, Guardian of the Heir and a descendant of his namesake from Shōgun, reads in the Toranaga Legacy, his ancestor's memoirs, about the Anjin and the cannons he provided, and muses on how to use foreigners the same way his forefather did. [4] In Clavell's novel Noble House, a minor character named Riko Anjin makes a brief appearance.
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, who must ...
James Clavell's Shōgun (1975) is a historical novel chronicling 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 restoration.
There’s Lord Yoshi Toranaga (Hiroyuki Sanada), an influential leader whose allegiance to the realm’s shogun, an equivalent to a monarch or a king, is being questioned by political rivals ...
Hiroyuki Sanada, who plays Lord Yoshi Toranaga, explained at a press event for Shōgun that this resonance is exactly why he’s excited to tell this story now. “When I received this role, [I ...
Toranaga refuses, knowing that this will only make him a target for the Taikō's enemies. Anticipating this response, the Taikō informs him that he is forming a "Council of Regents", which includes Toranaga, to prevent a possible civil war over his succession. In 1600, Blackthorne is brought before Toranaga and Mariko. They bring Portuguese ...
Toranaga is in a giant pickle made of glass, and this glass pickle is dangling precariously from the edge of a kitchen counter, seconds away from shattering." [ 15 ] Johnny Loftus of Decider wrote , "the threat Lord Toranga now faces in Shōgun Episode 8, to the realm and to his clan, has inspired the most relentless, physically costly version ...