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In episode 6, Shōgun alleges that Toranaga may have concocted the scheme himself. Audiences are left wondering whether or not to trust Lady Ochiba’s accusations, but it’s another wrinkle that ...
Yoshii Toranaga. Tokugawa Ieyasu, Toranaga’s real-life counterpart, is one of the most important figures in Japanese history. Known as one of the great unifiers of Japan, the Tokugawa shogunate ...
John Blackthorne, a risk-taking English sailor who ends up shipwrecked in Japan, a land whose unfamiliar culture will ultimately redefine him; Lord Toranaga, a shrewd, powerful daimyo, at odds with his own dangerous, political rivals; and Lady Mariko, a woman with invaluable skills but dishonorable family ties, who must prove her value and ...
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
We open to a flashback to Toranga’s first victory ever on the battlefield, 46 years ago: A 12-year-old Toranaga accepts the surrender of his much older opponent, who commits ritual suicide in ...
Toranaga honors Mizoguchi's wishes, and the latter commits seppuku by stabbing himself in the stomach before Toranaga beheads him. In 1600, Toranaga meets with his estranged half-brother, Saeki Nobutatsu. Toranaga wants to unite their armies to invade Osaka as part of Crimson Sky, and Saeki agrees to help his brother.
One of the regents, Yoshii Toranaga, is summoned before his colleagues: Ishido Kazunari, Kiyama ukon Sadanaga, Sugiyama Josui, and Ohno Harunobu. Toranaga has been accused of consolidating his power and the other regents are seriously considering a motion by Ishido to impeach him, which would also condemn him to " seppuku ."
“The model of Toranaga is based on the real shogun, Ieyasu, who created the peaceful era after the war period for about 260 years,” he explained. “That’s why he became a hero, for then and ...