The bestselling novel of feudal Japan, from the Asian Saga, and a companion to code 83456 TaiPan by the same author. This tourdeforce epic saga is of PilotMajor John Blackthorne, who is shipwrecked on Japan, the most alien of shores. The novel charts his rise from the status of reviled foreigner up to the heights of trusted advisor and eventually samurai, all as civil war looms over the fragile country.