Yabu puts Blackthorne and his crew on trial as pirates, using a Jesuit priest to interpret for Blackthorne.
England (and Holland) seek to disrupt Portuguese-Catholic relations with Japan and establish ties of their own through trade and military alliances.Īfter Erasmus is blown ashore on the Japanese, Blackthorne and ten other survivors are taken captive by local samurai, Kasigi Omi, until his daimyō and uncle, Kasigi Yabu, arrives. John Blackthorne, an English pilot serving on the Dutch warship Erasmus, is the first Englishman to reach Japan. The book is divided into six sections, preceded by a prologue in which Blackthorne is shipwrecked near Izu, then alternating between locations in Anjiro, Mishima, Osaka, Yedo, and Yokohama. Toranaga's rise to the shogunate is seen through the eyes of the English sailor John Blackthorne, called Anjin ("Pilot") by the Japanese, whose fictional heroics are loosely based on the historical exploits of William Adams.
8 Other fiction depicting the life of Will Adamsīeginning in feudal Japan some months before the critical Battle of Sekigahara in 1600, Shōgun gives an account of the rise of the daimyō "Toranaga" (based upon the actual Tokugawa Ieyasu). Just don't watch the 2-hour mess that is on video. It's a miracle that it came off as beautifully as it did. It will always be one of the crowning achievements for television. as it has become, but it certainly sparked an ongoing interest in Japanese history and culture in me. I don't know if I agree with the director and producers that if it wasn't for 'Shogun' sushi would not be as popular in the U.S. When you watch the bonus material, you get an idea of what a monumentally difficult project this was from the language and custom difficulties to the famous TOHO Studios being about 25 years behind the times with their equipment.not to mention the tank where the shipwreck was filmed. I was amazed that wasn't edited out in post. It was impressive up until the helicopter shadow goes right over the boat and the water!. The only other "ouch" moment, for me, came in the opening shot of the "Erasmus" being filmed from a helicopter with Orson Welles narration. It took a while to get used to the seams and wrinkled skullcaps and the makeup that didn't really match. Now that it's out on DVD, how could I resist? Seeing it on a much bigger screen than existed in the early 80's, I immediately was appalled by the bad hair pieces of almost all of the Japanese actors. I was like millions of other viewers who made sure they were home night after night to see this epic. I first saw the mini-series on TV when it came out.
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