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
Purchase Information
ISBN 0440178002