title: Learning from Shogun: Japanese History and Western Fantasy.
author: Henry (editor) Smith
description: Learning from Shogun: Japanese History and Western Fantasy. by Henry Smith.
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  Set in Japan in the year 1600, _Shōgun_ is the earliest book in James
  Clavell’s magnificent Asian Saga. Grand in scope and scale, filled with the
  richness and passion of history, _Shōgun_ is a classic novel of Japan—a
  vibrant and authentic portrait of a nation seething with violence and intrigue
  as it moves from the medieval world to the modern.
  
  
  **PRAISE FOR JAMES CLAVELL AND HIS PHENOMENAL BESTSELLER _SHŌGUN_**
  
  
  
  
  
  “ _Shōgun_ is irresistible. I can’t remember when a novel has seized my mind
  like this one. Perhaps it was the author’s Hong Kong novel, _Tai-Pan.…_ James
  Clavell breathes narrative. It’s almost impossible not to continue to read
  _Shōgun_ once having opened it. Yet it’s not only something you read—you live
  it … possessed by the Englishman Blackthorne, the Japanese lord Toranaga and
  medieval Japan.… People, customs, settings, needs and desires all become so
  enveloping you forget who and where you are.”
  
  
  _—New York