Episode 1: Anjin | FX Shōgun Episode Guide

A Mysterious Barbarian Ship

Story. History. Culture.

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Falconry

Toranaga holds his pet falcon while seated on his white horse

The Council of Regents

Meeting between the Council of Regent members in Osaka Castle

What did Tadayoshi do wrong?

Close up of Tadayoshi with Toranaga's other samurai lined up behind him

The Jesuits in Japan

Blackthorne is held captive while a Portuguese priest translates for him in the rain

Burei Uchi "License to kill”

Omi puts his sword away after killing a disobedient Christian peasant

The Cauldron

Two samurai carry off Pieterzoon who is bound at his wrists and ankles

Iberian Pilots and Storms

Blackthorne aboard Toranaga's galley in the pouring rain injured and wrists bound

Seppuku

Tadayoshi prepares for his seppuku dressed in white while Nagakado stands behind him ready to assist

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Lord Toranaga in full busho armor standing in front of his war camp amid torchlights

Toranaga

played by Hiroyuki Sanada

Blackthorne

played by Cosmo Jarvis

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Mariko

played by Anna Sawai

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Yabushige

played by Tadanobu Asano

Hiroto Kanai as Kashigi Omi in FX's Shogun

Omi

played by Hiroto Kanai

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Ishido

played by Takehiro Hira

Moeka Hoshi as Usami Fuji for FX's Shogun

Fuji

played by Moeka Hoshi

Tokuma Nishioka as Toda Hiromatsu for FX's Shogun

Hiromatsu

played by Tokuma Nishioka

Yuki Kura as Yoshii Nagakado for FX's Shogun

Nagakado

played by Yuki Kura

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