Reminiscent of 1600 historical fiction books, Shōgun begins a few months before the Battle of Sekigahara. A Dutch ship come ashore an island and they’re not really sure where they are. The interesting thing about this book is that you see two perspectives and the characters are completely different: an English captain of a Dutch ship John “あんじん”(Pilot) Blackthorn and the rising daimyo, Toranaga Yoshi. An exciting scene happened eight chapters into the book. Another daimyo from another part of the country wants to speak with Blackthorne and sends someone to Toranaga palace to request him. On their way to meet the daimyo, there’s a storm while they’re still four or five hours away from shore. The sailors, first of which is a Portuguese pilot