![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() One incident that struck me, and the Anjin-san too, was when a samurai voluntarily leaps to his death in order to simply get the attention of his master.Īnother aspect of that culture is the prevalence and acceptance of multiple sexual partners. This was apparent in the sheer number of seppuku's ( samurai ritual suicide) that occur throughout the book, without a second's hesitation. Or rather, the view that your current life is merely a brief state of being, and not worth preserving if your honour is on the line, and certainly not worth crying over. Some of the aspects of the Japanese that Clavell writes about made a deep impression on me. Anjin-san), whose ship is wrecked on its shores. Clavell does a great job painting an image of what Japan in the 1600's looked like to an outsider, Englishman John Blackthorne (a.k.a. What I was less familiar with was the Japanese culture at the time. ![]() I had visited ancient Japanese castles before, so I was familiar to a certain extent with the setting of the book. Justin's a pretty cool entrepreneur, having started some wildly successful companies (and some odd ones), so I trusted his word and embarked on this 1,000+ page book. Before reaching out to Justin Kan to see if he would be interested in being a Time Auction reward donor ( which he was!), I did some research on him and found out that Shogun was his favourite book. ![]()
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