His power was greater than that of any previous shogun, but it wouldn't ... forces and did away with many of the samurai's special rights. Thus, the sword-slashing warrior of yore abandoned ...

Seppuku was a samurai ritual in which a person who had lost their honor would die by suicide by stabbing themselves with a short sword in the ... in the first place. Shogun is an FX original ...

In the Eighties, it felt like every household had a copy of Shogun by James Clavell on the bookshelves. Running to some 800 ...