Abstract

May 2020, Volume 48, Number 3 65 (Letters written by the fathers and The lack of citations is not just a the West chooses to view Japan. He joins a handful of foreign characters brothers of the society of Jesus from question of proof. Citations help the the West has inserted into Japanese the Kingdoms of Japan and China— reader know the background of the lore. These include John Blackthorne, Volume II), known as Cartes.The evidence. Since most of the primary the reimagined William Adams, a sources are presumably letters by work was heavily edited and censored seventeenth-century English pilot and Fr
ois, bibliographic references could and, the authors note, the few surviv- advisor to Tokugawa Ieyasu, in explain when and to whom he wrote ing editions of the originals are and whether he was an eye witness, Clavell’s Shogun, a retelling of the “wasting away in European libraries, putting these events in better context. end of the Warring States Era, as well accessible to only the most dedicated Citations also serve as stepping stones as Tom Cruise’s fictional US Captain scholars” (365). (There is a mid-1940s Nathan Algren in The Last Samurai,a for further research. Lockley and Japanese translation