The Start of it All
****Prologue
An English ship's pilot whose vessel is wrecked upon the coast of early 17th century Japan is captured, then forced to deal for his very sur- vival with the Shogun Toranaga, ruthless High Lord of The Canton; the most powerful and in- fluential man in all of Japan at the time.Thrown into the midst of an ancient, rigid and unforgiving foreign culture, Anjin-san (Mister Pilot; named so by his captors) must learn the Japanese language and conform to Japanese ways or face a horrible fate.
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