The book does manage ones considerations of who was the beast very well. I’ll give you a hint as to the author’s conclusion – one society bathed constantly the other – well perhaps never at all. The Westerners or the Japanese of the 1600s. The purpose was to give you the reader the opportunity to determine who were the barbarians. The complexity of the story’s plot was there merely to present each culture’s élan or perhaps moral underpinnings. The book was a constant weighing between cultures – Western European versus Japanese. I was taught much about the way of the combatant in the book, but that was merely a setting for the real voyage that the story takes you upon. Bushidō (武士道?), literally "the way of the warrior", or the way of the samurai. I was studying karate at the time (and for many years thereafter) and wanted to know as much as I could about Bushido. I first read Shogun about one year after it was originally released, in 1975. A Wonderful Story and A Wonderful Study of Bushido
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