The audio book is also very good!

Also my all time favorite book.

It is my 2nd favorite novel! The way he writes flows like water and keeps you asking what is going to happen next. I cannot recommend it enough. The mini series is worth a watch (far from perfect though), and has Richard Chamberlain, Toshiro Mifune, and John Rhys Davis.

I think reading it as a teenager really helped me understand Japanese culture. I honestly wasn't sure it was based on a real person though!

@@Hrogoff by my beard, I have to try capon one day, whatever the heck it is lol. Gimli and anjin sama made it look so good. Can't find anyone that sells it though lol

Wow, that’s really cool and interesting, what an impression he made on the people and culture

Hold on! William didn't! Kelly successfully resurrected Nobunaga! Nobunaga was just not feeling it and told him to fuck of.

@@therac197 that would be why there's an "and" XD.

Awww... i was gonna make this reference.

Is this Sekiro reference?

@@oyiv1 No, it´s from Nioh. There are no real historical characters in Sekiro except maybe the Ashina Clan itself

How life during Japan's bubble economy looked like?

Real life was so much cooler than clavells book, since he changed everyones name and igored half of the history.

I did the same in 94. CV63 USS KittyHawk

Mandate of Heaven: To be Counted Righteous always meant to reject Evil absolutely never allowed to justify evil crime lawlessness in heart thus when being made aware of Law thus taking God at his word (God's word made flesh: Jesus Christ replacement of First Man & the Lord of Heaven in the Flesh the literal Body of God) hence obedience and sacrifice the test of the heart (In full legal agreement with/Listening to God). The Heart is what has always been judged (pure) as good or evil. (Once learned made aware of Law, All People held to account judged by Law known/Israel.) El-Elyon (Most High), Ahura Mazda "Wise Lord" (Persia) Zoroastrianism, Egyptian Book of the Dead, Ancient China Temple of Heaven (Shang-Di), (Egypt) Ancient of Days, all cultures prove the only first religion and priesthood of humanity the Melchizedek Priesthood Jesus Christ (completed) fulfilled forever as the living High Priest (Promised Virgin Birth Covenant: Christianity is the fulfilled Melchizedek Priesthood through Jesus Christ the only promised savior redeemer who fulfilled the law and prophets and his Church is the only Functioning prophetic Holy Spirit Lead Priesthood of the 12 Tribes of Israel). Children, Free Will, & The Tower of Babel cultural language divide delays Jesus Christ's reign as when he claims throne he is immediately responsible for judging all both living and dead. All ancients knew of the promised resurrection of the Dead (Reincarnation), virgin birth, and Judgement Day of the Righteous and Wicked souls; To be perfect is to be complete according to set standard, mathematical law of absolutes good vs evil. The true opposite of love is unholy selfishness, the epitome of pride is self-righteousness (unmerited value/unlawfully agreed). People confuse pride with its righteous opposite which is Glory/Honor all ancients sought. Good is that of Truth/Holy Lawful Order, & Justice. Evil is that of Lies, unlawful disorder, chaos. Jesus Christ is the Law and the Test of Faith & Heart concerning righteousness and ritual purity that which is Holy; whereby Jesus Christ the word of God in the flesh is the standard of measure how a person is judged as good or evil based on their choice to receive God's payment blood covering sacrifice through Jesus Christ's Perfect Lawful Life. Faith=Trust. (KJV Bible for English) (Romans Ch.10) (Eternal Life) If you confess with the mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that the creator (supreme spirit) Lord of Heaven hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved.” Jesus Christ the only worthy Emperor King of Kings Alpha Omega of Humanity has the authority and dominion of the first man and is the Eldest of the Human Race (Virgin Birth promised by Creator before Cain & Able) and First Born resurrected unto Glorification from the Dead. Israel is the church body of Christ Family of God; all people of any nation of the world that choose Righteousness, Honor, & Glory are citizens of Israel the Most High Lord of Heaven's Kingdom. Peace = Jesus Christ the only begotten son of God born from a virgin with no corruption from Adam's Seed. Islam is Satans Counterfeit of The 12 Tribes of Israel. Most people in world (All Ethnicities) including Arabs that identify as muslims are actually Israelites by Blood (All saved by Blood of Messiah Jesus Christ counted as Israelites co-heirs by Blood of Jesus Christ). #Zoroastrianism proves virgin birth (3 Wise Men Kings from East). Confess & Repent of Evil Crime lawlessness by Jesus Christ to Heavenly Father Creator of Life! (stop doing crime and ask for forgiveness for all evil done)

Servers? Like the people who expect tips for doing basically nothing while the true workers, cooks and dishwashers get zero tips? Those servers? Or servers as in people who serve a lord

Samurai can be interpreted as “one who serves” or “warrior that serves.” The opposite would be a ronin, which is one that has no master, so it cannot “serve” because it has no master. That’s the way I take his stamens at least.

@@jamesmeppler6375 "Server" as in somebody who serves as a "retainer" or "vassal" of a lord, either as a warrior or advisor.

@@doublep1980 ah I see thank you

If he could even survive the voyage back...they had a fully stocked crew and three ships to start with, and barely made it to Japan with one near destroyed ship and only a handful of men, sick and near death....The Portuguese had ports all along the way...the English had none...He DEFINITELY made the right choice...although I feel sorry reading about bis family in England wondering if he had lived or died for all those years before they finally got word back.

Commoner, yes. But not a ordinary seaman. He was a pilot (navigator) and shipwright. Such a position wasn't poor as such and definitely not on the lowest rung of society. Not rich by any standard but he had basic means. In todays society he would have been classified as middle class. In Japan he become a Lord with land and title so it's easy to see why he stayed. Even though he wished to return to his wife and children in England, by staying in Japan as a Lord he probably figured he had vastly more means to save them out of poverty then he ever would as an English pilot. It was to never be though unfortunately.

But home is home...

He could have paid to bring her wife and children to Japan. But I guess the shoguns wouldn’t approve of that.

@@iMadrid11 It was a minor miracle that he survived the trip, along with the several others in his crew. He must have been made of extremely tough stuff, I can't imagine surviving the trip myself. Eating the rats and leather cladding of the ship would have been the first step of survival, let alone the Spanish, natives on various islands and nature itself.

How's that fun? I'll check it out

@yeh nah imagine thinking Japan is without issues and that they would have had more issues from Christianity. Imagine unironically making a statement like that when Japanese people are suffering from the highest rates of depression and suicide and also having some of the lowest birth rates. Comments like that show a lack of greater historic context understood and that you also don't understand the current global political situation. You're comment just shows you hate middle eastern groups in general because you probably don't understand them, the history, or the global destabilization that the US, Russia, Israel, China and all the other great world powers have done to these places using them as theaters for their squabbles and self interest but please keep blaming the 'desert people' and their 'desert religion'. (By the way, The middle east isn't a desert, if maybe you looked at a map or read about the world ever you would have known that)

@@simpicusmaximus Hardly the highest suicide rates, yes, Japan's suicide rates are high, but not the highest, South Korea's suicide rates are much higher than Japan's (and Korea has a way higher Christian population than Japan, so Japan being Christian probably wouldn't make the suicide rate lower, if that's what you're implying, in fact, many Christian majority countries have a much higher suicide rate than Japan, such as Russia , Lithuania and Lesotho), and to be honest, just the fact that homophobia and other bigotry that abrahamic religions bring, have no religious justification to grow in Japan, probably makes it much better for Japan to not be a Christian majority country.

@@simpicusmaximus Continuous growth in a finite world is idiotic. The world needs fewer people not more.

@Marcelo Henrique Soares da Silva Are you really going to say "asian people don't tolerate homosexuality" in the same channel that made a video about samurai sexuality? kzfaq.info/get/bejne/i89dqLmJuL21knU.html In fact, japan only started prohibiting homosexuality in the 19th century, after the U.S. forced it to open it's borders. In fact intolerance towards homosexuality is mostly a recent thing in China, due to the CCP. As for Russia, it's said that in the 10th century, the Russian Prince Vladimir rejected Islam as a state religion, due to it not allowing the consumption of alcohol, so no, Russians were always famous for their high alcohol consumption, with or without communism, that would've continued. Also, South korea has a much higher Christian population than Japan (More than 25% of the population), and yet, it's suicide rates are much higher than Japan, guess being Christian is not helping them not to commit suicide.

Even though I don't like how overzealous and severe the Spanish and Portuguese Catholics were, the Jesuits at least made the effort to learn the language and the cultures of the peoples they sought to convert. And even though the Jesuits were still severe in their own ways, they were still willing to educate, recruit, and help anybody, regardless of caste or class. There may have even been some Franciscans who were more compassionate than others. But of course, as you said, the Spanish Catholics were pretty arrogant and assumed that they could easily take on the Feudal Japanese. I think they were just so used to being successful in conquering other civilizations, like the Aztecs, the Maya, and the Inca, that they thought could do the same in Feudal Japan. I like how in the novel Shogun, though is set in an allegorical alternate reality of Japan, there is a Japanese Jesuit which Blackthorne encountered, named Michael, who was much kinder, smarter, more forgiving, and more Christian than the other Jesuits in the book. Even Blackthorne liked him. I admire priests like that who are learned, worldly, wise, kind, and moderate. Unfortunately, not all Jesuits were like that back in Will Adams' time. On one hand, I'm glad the Spanish Catholics were no match for the Japanese warriors under Tokugawa, and that they didn't succeed in conquering Japan. On the other hand, I'm both a foreigner and half-Catholic, and I would have had a hard time living in Feudal Japan during Tokugawa's reign. Even if I had a warrior spirit like Musashi, and was able to speak their language, I would still have a hard time.

I got instantly pissed it wasn't on Xbox lmao

Your explanation made me realize Nioh is Japan's take on Abraham Lincoln Vampire Hunter

I'm only on this channel due to Nioh. As obscure and mythical as Nioh's story is, it's still an INCREDIBELY atmospheric game and it still sparked an interest for japanese history for me.

nioh is an interesting game, because even though it is fantasy, it had a lot of historical basis or based on obscure rumors of that time to deliver its creative liberties such as 1. There being two Ieyasus, one doppelganger/decoy and the real one 2. Sanada Yukimura almost killing Ieyasu. Or Sarutobi Sasuke being the one to charge at Tokugawa camp to kill him. The game made it so that Sasuke disguised himself as Yukimura and charged at Ieyasu's camp 3. Akechi Mitsuhide faking his death and become Tenkai 4. Cannons on Williams Adams ships being used at Sekigahara. In the game, it was William himself who fired the cannons at Hideaki Kobayakawa to spur him into action. 5. Shima Sakon surviving Sekigahara, because his body/remains was never actually found although it was believed he was fatally shot.

According to Giles Milton's book there have been numerous attempts to trace descendants of Adams but with no success. When Hidetada was replaced as Shogun by his sadistic son Iemitsu it would not be safe to be a foreigner in Japan. Iemitsu harboured a passionate hatred for foreigners so Adams children, grandchildren etc would have kept their English ancestry a secret.

Willing to bet he spread his seed.

Miura is a fairly common surname in Modern Japan.

@@toddkorson6390 he was described too ugly. proabbly not.

Its a good read, even the tv movie was good. Its just not reality, it came close to it but I wonder why he couldn't just say the main character was William adams not blackthorn or used Tokugawa iyesu instead of.....

Also King Rat

Shogun is the first book of what Clavell called The Asian Saga. It’s a total of three books.

All of the characters were real or are based on a popular depiction of them existing. Kelly and Dee were both real alchemists too. Dee is even the father of the British Empire. The ones that have the least amount of real basis are Okatsu and Maria as far as I am aware.

@@therac197 Yeah! It was very interesting knowing they are fictionalized versions of real people

Nope, but they did change him from English to irish as there was more to work with in terms of irish mythology (like his spirit saorise)

- and their imaginary sky god.

@@richardwebb2348 What's the purpose of adding this reddit commentary

​@@richardwebb2348 factual God

@@richardwebb2348 Now go back to your mother's basement.

@richard very edgy.

Shogun is a novel loosely based on the life of William Adams - neither the book or the later TV series is a "true" story.

*glances under this comment to see 'the first western weeb' and then get a flashback to Nioh weeb jokes*

But then again. Weaboo isn’t a monolith. You have your anime weebs and then there’s the Tokusatsu weebs which is the camp that William Adams the English samurai belongs to.

dweeb is the bad term which our overlords in KZfaq are. Weebs is fine as a term, just keep it a secret.

Agreed. Weeaboo is not even necessarily someone who likes or speaks the language of Japan. A weeaboo is a non-Japanese person who rejects his/her background and pretends to be Japanese based off of little information they get from anime and other things. In the end, they get the language, culture, and other things wrong and make asses of themselves. William did learn about Japan and became accustomed to it legitimately. Weeaboo shouldn't be thrown around so liberally.

Found the weeaboos

He probably wasn't. The biggest clue is the fact that he never got a family name. However, as I saw in another video, him not being a samurai wasn't that big of a deal as there were thousands of samurai in Japan at the time that no one cares about. Yasuke was more important as he was a member of Oda's inner circle, even if not a samurai.

He was a retainer and was allowed to bear arms, I think. Not really a landlord.

no

Yasuke was one of the few survivors of all the battles he was in and also the ones he lost. He survived the ambush on Nobunaga and supposedly was tasked with delivering Nobunaga's head to his son where he'd go on to survive another attack by Mitsuhide's forces when he went to serve Nobunaga's Son, Yasuke fought alongside Nobutada's warriors and only surrendered his sword when the last of Nobutada's warriors did likewise. He most likely received Samurai training and was a skilled warrior to be able to survive battles where most Samurai perished in. So, yes, technically, he was a Samurai and a very skilled one at that.

​​​@@oriont6944From everything ive read on him,it seems he was never called a samurai and Highly dought he was one the the finest samurai the man was only in Japan for 3 years also things like iaido take years to learn and can take a life tome to master

For sure!

Yeah, at least till the difficulty gets to Way of the Wise and Nioh

Um....the heck you smoking boy? William adams didn't get over until AFTER oda nobunaga died. This was long after the invasion of Korea and the death of the taiko toyatomi hideyoshi. The samurai William adams served was Tokugawa Ieyesu, the future shogun on Japan. Odd nobunaga was betrayed and killed by his retainer akechi mitsuhide. Maybe 20 + years before the battle of sekigahara of 1600

@@jamesmeppler6375 He confused Yasuke with Williams🤣.

William wasn't allowed to leave Japan, essentially. He was considered too important. It is believed, maybe outright proven somewhere, that he continued to support his family from afar.

Some of the crew did make it back to Holland. Thus was able to set up trade with Japan. His English wife was supported some how.

Some of the crew are buried beside Adams on the island of Hirado, off Nagasaki. They were excavating the grave site when I was there in 2019 and although they found remains purporting to belong to a North-western European male in his fifties, they have no source to compare the DNA with. Last I heard, they were trying to find descendants of Adams in his home town of Gillingham.

Mifune was the greatest

@fightfannerd9 exactly

Last Samurai disease? I thought that movie was inspired by Jules Brunet.

I read that Tom Cruise was going to make a movie about Frederick Townsend Ward an American general in the Taiping rebellion but when that failed they decided to do a movie about the satsuma rebellion and instead of him being french they just kept the American parts.

The Last Samurai was in reference to the collective class of Samurai as a whole, not Tom Cruise's character Nathaniel Algren. The Last Samurai were warriors like Ujio, Matsumoto, and the notoriously feared Bob.

Jup

Why?

Wasn’t his name Yasuke, obsidian samurai

@@Gary_a_normal_human_being Lol, obsidian.