Title: Shōgun
Subtitle: a novel of Japan
First published: 1975
Description: Starting with his shipwreck on alien shores, the novel charts Blackthorne's rise from the status of reviled foreigner up to the heights of trusted advisor and eventually, Samurai. All as civil war looms over the fragile country.
Subjects: Fiction, History, Historical fiction, Fiction in English, Warlords, Samurai, British in Japan, Adventure ficiton, Catholic Church, Japan -- History -- Tokugawa period, 1600-1868 -- Fiction, Motion pictures, Fiction, historical, general
Places: Japan
Time periods: Tokugawa period, 1600-1868