James Clavell's Shogun

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

Book Information

Clavell, James. Shogun Dell, 1986