Shogun: samurai lord is a historical adventure novel written by James Clavell and originally published in 1975. In addition, based on the same novel, there was a television series in five chapters, with the same name Shogun (TV series 1980) directed by Jerry London, in 1980. The action takes place in feudal Japan in 1600, some months before the crucial battle of Sekigahara. Recounts the rise to the shogunate of Toranaga daimyo (fictitious name to Tokugawa Ieyasu) through the vision of an English sailor whose exploits are based loosely on those of William Adams (24 September 1564-16 May 1620), also known in Japanese as Anjin-sama (Anjin, pilot sama, a qualifier Japanese honorific equivalent of excellence) and as Miura Anjin (三浦 按 针, the pilot of Miura).
Adams was an English navigator who traveled to Japan and is believed to be the first Briton to reach this country. Shortly after his arrival, he became a senior adviser to the shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu and built for him a sailboat Western style was the first of its kind made in Japan. Adams was later a key figure in establishing sales offices in Holland and England. It was also a very important part in the trade called red seal ships throughout Asia, chartering and captaining several sailboats to Southeast Asia for commercial purposes. It is now considered as one of the most influential foreigners in Japan during the first period of opening to the West.
Title: Shogun: samurai lord
Synopsis:
Blackthorne, an English sailor held captive in Japan in the Shogun By the early seventeenth century, it gradually adapts to the lifestyle of their new masters to end up as samurai to serve the great lord . The clash between two cultures and two ways of seeing the world as far away as Western and Eastern, is dissolved in the story of a man who ends up reconciled.
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