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I do find myself wondering how accurate that book was regarding feudal Japan...

• blahi 10y ago
  It is historical fiction. blackthorne did exist, did get samurai status and estate, did build ships for Toranaga (Tokugawa Ieyasu). The characters are real and James Clavell spent 4 years in Japan researching and writing the book. His depiction was rather accurate, though of course exaggerated and romanticized. http://www.columbia.edu/~hds2/learning/Learning_from_shogun_txt.pdf http://www.columbia.edu/~hds2/learning/Learning_from_shogun_...