Title: Excellent interpretation of Japanese history
Product review: Set at the end of the feudal period (c.1600), this novel is (very) loosely based on real events. Mr. Clavell's characterizations were true-to-life. The premise of the story is familiar to many through the TV mini-series. An English pilot guides a Dutch privateer to Japan in flight from the Spanish. Due to a variety of political pressures, religious and financial factors and mostly to his personal magnetism, courage, skill and luck the pilot (John Blackthorn) becomes a pawn and a personage. His patron, Toranaga,is Clavell's avatar of Ieyasu. Must read
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