And so, with one final view of Lord Toranaga standing alone at the edge of the world, FX’s “Shōgun” comes to a poignant, if abrupt end. Viewers who expected the old-school Japanese epic to end with a ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." The events of the series begin with the death of Toyotomi Hideyoshi, who was the second Great Unifier of ...

OSAKA -- A letter penned by Edo-period tea master and landscape architect Kobori Enshu (1579-1647) indicating the possibility that there was a plan to move the Tokugawa shogunate headquarters from ...

Sengoku Jidai was a period in Japan's history when every samurai and their granddaddy wanted to be the shogun, chief of warriors and the real authority in the country. Several notable names managed to ...