![]() ![]() Japanese society is insular and xenophobic with outsiders greatly distrusted and restricted. The imperial heir is young and power rests in a council of regents formed of the most powerful overlords perpetually jostling for power and the title of Shōgun (hereditary military ruler). Japan in 1600 is a feudal country in a precarious peace. Beginning in 1600 in feudal Japan, some months before the critical battle of Sekigahara, Shōgun gives an account of the rise of the daimyo “Toranaga” (based upon the actual Tokugawa Ieyasu) of the Shogunate, seen through the eyes of an English sailor whose fictional heroics are loosely based on William Adams’s exploits. A major bestseller, by 1990 the book Shōgun had sold 15 million copies worldwide. Shogun is the first novel (by internal chronology) of James Clavell‘s Asian Saga. ![]() Shogun/ Shōgun is a 1975 novel by James Clavell. Read Shogun online free Click Cover To Read Book Online Free! ![]()
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