![]() ![]() Yabu puts Blackthorne and his crew on trial as pirates, using a Jesuit priest to interpret for Blackthorne. ![]() Blackthorne and the few survivors of his crew are taken captive by local samurai, Kasigi Omi, until his ] (feudal lord) and uncle, Kasigi Yabu, arrives. ![]() England (and Holland) seek to disrupt Portuguese (and Catholic) relations with Japan and establish ties of their own through trade and military alliances.Įrasmus is blown ashore on the Japanese coast at the village of Anjiro during a storm. John Blackthorne, an English pilot, serving on the Dutch warship Erasmus, is the first English pilot to reach Japan. Guns and Europe's modern military capabilities are still a novelty and despised as a threat to Japan's traditional Samurai warrior culture. But Japanese society is insular and xenophobic. Portugal, with its vast sea power, and the Catholic Church mainly through the Order of the Jesuits, have gained a foothold in Japan and seek to extend their power. The heir to the Taiko (Regent) is too young to rule, and the most powerful five overlords of the land hold power as a Council of Regents. Feudal Japan in 1600 is in a precarious peace. ![]()
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