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A very good study of Tokugawa Ieyasu was done by a Professor Shaw, an Australian, in 1937 entitled:
Tokugawa Ieyasu, Maker of Modern Japan. Basically a Biography, covering all aspects of T.I. life.
I am sure Clavell had read this book, and also library books in England on the British relations with 1500 and 1600 Japan.
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Wow, I didn't know people outside Japan are interested in Sengoku era, which reminds me of a personal anecdote about it. When I was 12 or something there was this strategic game called Nobunaga's ambition and I was super hooked and literally memorized all daimyos, their famous samurai retainers and where they governed etc. One day, in the Japanese history exam, to my utter surprise, asked students to write down sengoku daimyos as many as possible with extra score 1 pts per daimyo. And as you expect I totally nailed it! I got 140 points out of 100😂
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Ieyasu to me is a competent general but a much better politician or diplomat who was able to convince many daimyo in the eastern part of japan to side with him. A man who is opportunistic in terms of using the circumstances surrounding him to gain the ultimate prize of becoming shogun and also a man who is adapatable in being able to bounce back from previous defeats to gaining even greater success in the future. I believe he was inspired by Imagawa Yoshimoto in terms of using diplomacy or politics in his lifetime since he was a hostage to the imagawa family for some time.
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I just finished watching the 3 videos recently posted that are of interest because of the Shogun 2024 series ( the older TV series was actually good too). Excellent history, well presented here, and very true telling of that was going on in Japan at this time to help understand the series better. Living in the Kyoto area, and the Shogun series a few weeks away from release, I’d just happen to visit the mountain top grave/shrine site of Hideyoshi with my wife. And, that reminded me of a book I would recommend for a historical (novel) background; “TAIKO’ by Eiji Yoshikawa.
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@tier1flyer680
2 months ago
Three iconic leaders in the Sengoku period are described their characters as, Nobunaga: Kills the bird if it won’t sing. Hideyoshi: Coaxes the bird sing if it won’t. Ieyasu: Sits back and waits for the bird to sing.
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