I’ve discovered about shogun recently when the new film trailer dropped, I instantly was interested as I’m hooked on Japanese culture and learning actively Japanese.
The book was a fire, intense, stressful to read, dramatic and tragic but also partially satisfying with a dry aftertaste.
It’s so strange that I didn’t know that there was a book based on William Adam’s life although a lot of fiction in shogun still it highlights a lot William’s life, what I found satisfying is that in reality William Aka Anjin-san didn’t loose his lover as ( spoiler alert) he did loose Mariko in the book, that was a shocking twist, and the twist of toronaga who had burnt Erasmus in order to keep the barbarian in Japan, I’ve rarely cried over a book, but I’ve been crying for quite a long time on this boon.
Now I’m filled with sadness as such a wonderful book came to it’s end.
Thanks for saying spoiler alert in the middle of your spoiler, That way I only read the first half of the spoiler! Please use the spoiler tags that will block it out instead of leaving it visible
Anyway, another good similar book you may enjoy is The African Samurai, about a slave given to the shogunate by Portuguese Jesuits