Portuguese person here. The "splitting up" of the world is absolutely historically accurate. And yes, it's profoundly arrogant(although that's not how it's framed in history class)

Spain and Portugal were the World powers of the time. The Treaty of Tordesillas was signed 100 years before Shogun is set and ratified by Pope Julius II*. Spliting up the world by longitude and latitude on one side of the line Everything new and undiscovered belonged to Spain and the other to Portugal. They were the first real mass colonising nations from Europe and basically laid the groundwork for the Dutch, French and British in the following 400-500 years.

Don't worry about your questions. Trust in the writers. This show is so well written, everything becomes clear.

One of the west written, best acted miniseries. Gets better after the first episode. This script hits all the tropes.

Fun fact this show was originally a mini series which would have been only one season but due to it's positive reception and overall attention it garnered it'll be getting another season

Portugal and Spain, were famed for their Armadas/Naval Capacity and were the first to sail to quite afew places incl. West Coast Africa

so basically they misunderstood hard what the Anjin said in his first meeting with Toranaga right? or am i missing something? he never claimed to be an enemy to Toranaga, quite the opposite, he bowed to him, and said he couldn't conceive of being an enemy to him.

John Blackthorne = Anjin Yoshi Toronaga = The Main Guy Kashigi Yabushige = The guy who boils people Yoshi Nagakado= Toronaga's son Toda Hiromatsu = the old general Matsunari Ishido= Toronaga's main rival Toda Buntaro = Hiromatsu's son and Mariko's husband That will get you started

Best show of the year thus far, counting returning seasons. Incredible costumes, dialogue, performances.

do look it up , that treaty was indeed a thing

I’m a Japanese a fan of your channel. Anjin‘s explanation about the treaty was accurate historically. Christianity was sorts of soft weapon at that era to invade other countries. Taiko Hideyoshi Toyotomi saw it’s intention of both nations and banned the missionaries activities nationwide, so did the following Shogun afterwards. That saved the integrity of Japan and its culture for the long time before WWII.

The high lords have wives, but they can also have consorts to have more children. They usually stay with the wives, like the heir's mother was consort to the Taiko. Also some of these families are closely related due to arranged marriages.

Yabushige the 🐐

Anna Sawai, the actress that plays Mariko is 32 years old. That's a thing with East Asian people, especially women. For our, western standards, they tend to look a lot younger then they do. In a similar way, we (white people) tend to think black people are older, then they really are.

Someone once described this show as John Blackthorne failing upwards and I can't help but agree

Yeah my American education only emphasized the trade and colonization through India and Southern Asia like the Philippines. This was interesting information to learn about Japan.

The colonial period 1500-1900 was 400 years of chaos in the 3rd world, and struggle for dominance in Europe.

The main characters in Shōgun are based on real people. Blackthorne, Mariko, Toranaga, and Yabushige, all have historical counterparts. The original 1980 miniseries by the same name, Shōgun, a well as this current one, was based on the novel by James Clavell published in 1975 (and well worth the read).

Great show. I think in this period of Japanese history, they were not much open to western countries. They were very much split about the religious presence. Some Japanese converted, others were very suspicious. Japan did benefit however from allowing the Portuguese to do some trading there.

John Blackthorn is supposed to be us..as the viewers

From now on, you can call Blackthorne Anjin-san, that's his Japanese name.

Lol yes i agree it is very rude to boil someone.

So much important history you never really hear! There was a reason why Missionaries were hated in so many places, but we never learn this in school. There's a reason why so many places around the world speak Spanish and Portuguese! Also, I love how Blackthorne is coming across as NOT the 'white savior', but has some good qualities.

Apparently, the drama series is set to be made into three seasons

Japan was a mystery back then. Portugal found it first and began sharing knowledge (and religion) with the Japanese people. That's why there are Christian priests and lords among the Japanese. And that's why Toranaga did not even know about England's existence or the rest of the world. They were converted and told that Portugal was the only civilized country.

there’s been a 2nd AND 3rd season green light 🙌🔥🍻

It's been renewed for more seasons

Btw this is a good way to get into history I highly recommend reacting to the KZfaq video “the complete history of the world… I think”. It covers every quickly including this.

With how filthy the water was in London at that time, it is no small wonder people worried about getting sick from bathing too much. They really had no concept of clean sources of water being safer like in Japan. I'm guessing your history lessons focused more on Mediterranean and Middle East history because it was more relevant to your past. Where U.S. teaches more about the colonization periods because it was a colony.

Treaty of Tordesillas

If you like this you might be interested in Taboo, the Tom Hardy show

React to "Kalki 2898AD" trailer. You will love it.

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Western Europeans were much more about naval power in this time period. Your region was much more about land power. It would make sense that you didn't learn a lot about the politics of western Europe at the time.

Sorry, USA and European are usually centered around their countries. But MOST countries study the WORLD history beyond their own country during middle and high school. At least here in Brasil and other latin american countries. We start with the first civilizations, then we go to egypt, greece, rome, china, the mezo americans, the african kingdoms, then medieval europe and the rest of history from europe's perpective, but also seing it from other personectives, like Asia, America and Africa before the europeans invaded them. And then we study the Great Navigation era, and from there we keep with the european perspective. That on WORLD history, besides our own country history (wich in our case, starts with the European invasion).

1492 Columbus arrived in San Salvador Island 1494 Treaty of Tordesillas A treaty between Spain and Portugal to define the territorial boundary of the Atlantic Ocean following the "discovery" of the New World. This is the reason why Brazil is the only country in South America where the official language is Portuguese. 1521 Magellan arrived in the Philippines 1529 Treaty of Zaragoza (Saragossa) A treaty between Spain and Portugal to define the territorial boundary in Asia. It runs through Japan.

Unfortunately we are going to get a season two. They are, I assume, gonna make it up as they go now that they’ve completed the story from the book. So expect more in a year or so.

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