While you may have enjoyed the samurai stylings of Hulu’s Shōgun—the plotting, the fighting, the politicking, the seppuku—would you believe it was actually based on a true story? Okay fine, the based-on-a-true-story of it all was probably clear all along (it’d be a pretty weird thing to make up), but the truth is that Shōgun, while fictional, has more real-life analogues than you probably even imagined. And that’s a good thing, because feudal Japan is a setting so rich that it feels like it has... Read this story
