Shōgun

About “Shōgun”

Shōgun is a 1975 historical fiction novel by James Clavell that covers the end of Japan's Azuchi-Momoyama period and the beginning of the Edo period. The story is loosely based on real events and people, focusing on how European involvement and internal Japanese conflicts led to the restoration of the Shogunate. The novel explores political intrigue and cultural tensions during a transformative era in Japanese history. (Summary adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.)