James Clavell's Shogun

Plot

Characters

Historical Equivalents of Characters

  • Akechi Jinsai - Akechi Mitsuhide
  • Father Martin Alvito - Joao Rodrigues, SJ
  • Beppu Genzaemon - Hojo Ujimasa
  • John Blackthorne - William Adams
  • Friar Braganza - St. Pedro Bautista OFM
  • (Toda) Buntaro - Hosokawa Tadaoki
  • Alban Caradoc - Nicholas Diggins
  • Chano-Tsubone - Saigo-No-Tsubone
  • (Yoshi) Chikitada - Matsudaira Kiyoyasu
  • Chimmoko - fictional
  • Father Carlo Dell’Aqua - Alessandro Valignano SJ
  • Friar Domingo - fictional
  • Elizabeth Blackthorne - Deliverance Adams
  • Felicity Balckthorne - Mary or Elizabeth Adams
  • Captain General Ferriera - Hoaratio Neretti
  • Fujiko - fictional
  • Fujimoto clan - Fujiwara
  • Lady Genjiko - Asai Ogo (Tokugawa Hidetada’s wife)
  • Go-Nijo - Go-Yozei
  • Goroda - Oda Nobunaga
  • Gyoko - fictional
  • Harima Tadao - Arima Harunobu
  • (Toda) Hiromatsu - Hosokawa Fujitaka
  • Ikawa Tadazuki - Imagawa Yoshimoto
  • Ishido Kazunari - Ishida Mitsunari
  • Ikawa Jikkyu - fictional
  • Kiku-fictional
  • Kiritsubo-noh-Toshiko - Acha-no-Tsubone
  • Kiyama - Konishi Yukinaga
  • (Toda) Mariko - Hosokawa Gracia
  • Brother Michael - Chijiwa Seizaemon
  • Minikui - fictional
  • Minowara clan - Minamoto clan
  • Mura - fictional
  • Yoshi Naga - Tokugawa Tadayoshi
  • Nakamura - Toyotomi Hideyoshi
  • Yoshi Noboru - Tokugawa Hideyasu
  • Yoshi Nobunaga - Tokugawa Nobuyasu
  • Lady Ochiba - Asai Chacha (Oichi’s daughter, Hideyoshi’s consort)
  • Kasigi Omi - fictional
  • Lord Onoshi - a composite of Konishi Yukinaga and Otani Yoshitsugu
  • Vasco Rodrigues - fictional
  • (Toda) Saruji - Hosokawa Tadatoshi
  • Lady Suzuko - O-Kane
  • Father Sebastio - unidentified ‘Portugall Iesuite’ who confronted Will Adams in Kyushu
  • Sen-no-Nakada - Sen-no-Rikyu
  • Paulus Spillbergen - Jacob Quaeckernaeck
  • Yoshi Sudara - Tokugawa Hidetada
  • Lord Sugiyama - Maeda Toshiie
  • Lady Tachibana - Lady Tsukiyama (Ieyasu’s first wife that he had put to death)
  • Yoshi Tadateru - Tokugawa Tadateru
  • Takashima clan - the Taira clan
  • Yoshi Toranaga - Tokugawa Ieyasu
  • Tudor Blackthorne - never named son of William Adams
  • Uraga-noh-Tadamasa/Brother Joseph - Chijiwa Seizaemon (also the model for Brother Michael, as he was baptized Don Michael)
  • Usagi (Fujiko’s husband) - fictional
  • Kasigi Yabu - fictional (Possibly his personality was based on Saito Dosan)
  • Yaemon - Toyotomi Hideyori
  • Lady Yodoko - Toyotomi Onene
  • Captain Yoshinaka - fictional
  • Saigawa Zataki (Toranaga’s half brother)-fictional, although the daimyo of Zataki’s fief were historically the Satake

Miniseries

Book Information

Clavell, James. Shogun Dell, 1986