Shogun

One of my favorite books is the novel by James Clavelle. It is set in the 1600's in pre-Tokugawa Japan. Much of the story revolves around the historical incident of an Englishman and his shipmates being washed ashore.

There was a lot going on in Japan at that time and the addition of the foreigners (at least in the novel) only stirred the pot. If you click on the title of this post, you'll be directed to the page on http://www.answers.com on the novel Shogun.

If you go here: you'll find a scholarly (and long) paper on Shogun.

http://www.columbia.edu/~hds2/learning/

Finally, here is a link to the book on Amazon:

http://www.amazon.com/Shogun-James-Clavell/dp/0340839945/ref=pd_bbs_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1197928328&sr=1-1