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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.
In James Clavell’s Shōgun, the character of John Blackthorne is heavily influenced by the life of William Adams, while Lord Yoshi Toranaga stands in for Tokugawa Ieyasu.. However, while Clavell ...
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.
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.
Clavell also added a relationship between Blackthorne and Toda Mariko (Anna Sawai), whose real-life counterpart never even met Adams. That isn’t to say that Tokugawa and Adams weren’t friends ...
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 ...
William Adams, the 16th century navigator-turned-samurai on whom Blackthorne's character in Shōgun is based, actually held the title of "jikatatori hatamoto" in real-life, directly serving the ...
James Clavell based his best-selling novel Shōgun (1975) on Adams' life and changed the name of his protagonist to "John Blackthorne". It has been adapted in various forms: 1980, as the NBC miniseries, Shōgun [97] 1989, as a video game James Clavell's Shōgun; 1990, as a Broadway production, Shōgun: The Musical