![]() They get still nearer before the “Japaners” are through with them. Like a sign, or possibly a curse, and after a murderous storm and two years circling the globe, the first Englishman to pass through the Straits of Magellan, a pilot named John Blackthorne and a dozen human ruins aboard the East India Company's Erasmus of Amsterdam drift into the fishing village of Anjiro, which is controlled by one of Toranaga's fiefs. He will present his victory to the quiet gardenerEmperor and be appointed Shogun-Supreme Military Dictator. President of the Council of Regents, Toranaga has a code name for the future: Crimson Sky. Onoshi, Kiyama, Ishido-oh serve the will in ceremony, while training armies and buying allies. ![]() His will ordered five regents to rule until his 7‐year‐old son reaches majority. Lord Protector of Japan, the peasant general who ordered 400,000 men to build Osaka Castle and ran his country like a genius chess player, has been dead a year. The age of iron and the morning of gunpowder, 12 years of peace after an epidemic of butchery. ![]()
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