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by blahi
3503 days ago
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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_... |
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