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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
The second, named Naruto: Shippuden (ナルト 疾風伝, Naruto Shippūden, literally, Naruto: Hurricane Chronicles), is based on Part II. Both series are produced by Studio Pierrot and TV Tokyo, and air on TV Tokyo. [4] Shueisha has released 72 tankōbon in Japan, with the
Konpeki no Kantai (紺碧の艦隊, literally "Azure Armada") is a Japanese alternate history series produced by J.C.Staff.The series focuses on both a technologically-advanced Imperial Japanese Navy and a radically-different World War II that were brought about by Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto's revival by unexplained circumstances.
The Japanese manga One Piece and its related media, features five characters named for Blackbeard — major antagonist Marshall D. Teach, also known as Blackbeard, his former crew mate Thatch, his former captain Edward Newgate, also known as Whitebeard, as well as minor characters Chadros Higelyges, who is known as Brownbeard, and Peachbeard, a ...
Yasuke is the first known African to appear in Japanese historical records. Much of what is known about him is found in fragmentary accounts in the letters of the Jesuit missionary Luís Fróis, Ōta Gyūichi's Shinchō Kōki (信長公記, Nobunaga Official Chronicle), Matsudaira Ietada's Matsudaira Ietada Nikki (松平家忠日記, Matsudaira Ietada Diary), Jean Crasset's Histoire de l ...
The cover of the third box set of the Naruto manga, the second, and final half of the Part II storyline. The plot of the Naruto manga series, written and illustrated by Masashi Kishimoto, is divided in to two; the second part is known as Part II. The series is about the eponymous character Naruto Uzumaki who wants recognition and respect from the fellow villagers, and to become the Hokage, the ...
The Kojiki, on the other hand, is written in a combination of Chinese and phonetic transcription of Japanese (primarily for names and songs). The Nihon Shoki also contains numerous transliteration notes telling the reader how words were pronounced in Japanese. Collectively, the stories in this book and the Kojiki are referred to as the Kiki ...
Danzo, remembering the lesson he learned when the Second Hokage sacrificed himself, uses the last of his strength to activate a sealing jutsu to trap two Sharingan users within his corpse. In his final moments as Sasuke and Tobi escaped the jutsu's radius, Danzo recalls how he never caught up to Hiruzen while lamenting of not becoming a Hokage.