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In episode 11 of the anime, it was revealed that Shikizaki's true intentions for creating the 12 Deviant Blades and Kyotōryū, were to falsify history and destroy the Owari Shoganate. He was doing this for the sake of Japan, as one of his ancestors had a vision that Japan will perish at the hands of foreigners.
The anime is composed of a dozen 50-minute episodes and follows the two main characters while they are searching for the katanas, except for one episode that is centered on Nanami Yasuri. In each episode, Shichika and Togame collect a katana or a new one will be introduced.
Sean T. Collins of The New York Times wrote, "Clearly, Shogun is building steam as our knowledge of both the characters and the stakes deepen. The more you see of it, the more you want to know how it ends." [9] Josh Rosenberg of Esquire wrote, ""War will be declared on my clan," Toranaga tells his men. "I desire no land. I want no honors.
Shōgun's biggest power players, explained.
"Tomorrow Is Tomorrow" (Japanese: 明日は明日, Hepburn: Ashita wa Ashita) is the third episode of the American historical drama television series Shōgun, based on the novel by James Clavell. The episode was written by co-executive producer Shannon Goss, and directed by Charlotte Brändström.
The series is set in 1600, and follows three characters. 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 ...
The character of Blackthorne is loosely based on the historical English navigator William Adams, [7] [8] who rose to become a samurai under Tokugawa Ieyasu, a powerful feudal lord (daimyō) who later became the military ruler of Japan and the founder of the Tokugawa shogunate. Ieyasu is the basis for the character of Yoshii Toranaga. [9] [10]
"A Dream of a Dream" (Japanese: 夢の中の夢, Hepburn: Yume no Naka no Yume) is the tenth and final episode of the first season of the American historical drama television series Shōgun, based on the novel by James Clavell. The episode was written by Maegan Houang and Emily Yoshida, and directed by Frederick E. O. Toye.