Details of work: Sh ō gun is bestselling historical novel written by James Clavell published in 1975. It also marks the first narrative of the Asian Saga – the masterpiece’s internal chronology. A Brief Genealogy of the Setting: The novel starts several months before a famous battle of Sekigahara in feudal Japan in the year 1600. This comes after the life of daimyō “Toranaga” a real historical figure namely Tokugawa Ieyasu,OffthenarrativeisJohn Blackthorne,known as Anjin or Pilot in Japanese.