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The Investiture of the Gods, also known by its Chinese names Fengshen Yanyi (Chinese: 封神演義; pinyin: Fēngshén Yǎnyì; Wade–Giles: Fêng 1-shên 2 Yan 3-yi 4; Jyutping: Fung 1 San 4 Jin 2 Ji 6) and Fengshen Bang (封神榜), [note 1] is a 16th-century Chinese novel and one of the major vernacular Chinese works in the gods and demons (shenmo) genre written during the Ming dynasty ...
Shōgun's biggest power players, explained.
In one of the best scenes in Shōgun to date, Blackthorne attempts to form an alliance with Yabushige on his way out of Japan, realizing that their moment atop the cliff in the show's very first ...
A late Ming commentary edition of The Story of Han Xiangzi A late Ming edition of The Eunuch Sanbao's Voyage to the Western Ocean, a blend of shenmo ("fantasy") and historical fiction Cover of an early 20th-century edition of Journey to the West (volume four) Cover of an early 20th-century edition of the Investiture of the Gods (volume two) Cover of Journey to the East, one of the Four ...
Xiezijing, also known as Scorpion Demoness (Chinese: 蝎子精, pinyin: Xiēzǐ jīng), is a major antagonist from the 16th-century Chinese classic novel Journey to the West and its media adaptations. Her true form is a giant scorpion as large as a pipa. [1]
Shōgun is a 1975 historical novel by author James Clavell that chronicles the end of Japan’s Azuchi-Momoyama period (1568-1600) and the dawn of the Edo period (1603-1868). ). Loosely based on actual events and figures, Shōgun narrates how European interests and internal conflicts within Japan brought about the Shogunate restorat
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The character is loosely based on the life of the 17th-century English navigator William Adams, who was the first Englishman to visit Japan. The character appears in the 1980 TV miniseries Shōgun, played by Richard Chamberlain, [1] and by Cosmo Jarvis in a 2024 series based on the book. Cosmo Jarvis plays Blackthorne in the 2024 series.