is the last Samurai a real person.....fact?

Usagi · Post by **Usagi** » Sun Sep 05, 2004 13:55 -0700

OK. question. Is the Last Samurai a real event happening?. I mean, was there really an English man who did go to japan and become a Samurai?

I seen a book about it, and It did not really cross my mind till now...

miyamoto musashi · Post by **miyamoto musashi** » Mon Sep 06, 2004 0:23 -0700

Usagi · Post by **Usagi** » Mon Sep 06, 2004 7:44 -0700

Well Ok.....Time to be more blunt about this. I KNOW the Movie was fack...read it at the very end of the trailers, But There is a book by Mark Ravina "The Last Samurai: The Life and Battles of Saigo Takamori "--> I have not read this book yet...but from the Looks of it, It gave me a hint of if there really was a Englishman who Did go to Japan and become a Samurai.

http://www.bookfinder4u.com/detail/0471089702.html

takematsu · Post by **takematsu** » Tue Sep 07, 2004 7:20 -0700

The Englishman who became a samurai was William Adams, and was the model for the character Richard Chamberlain played in Shogun. He arrived in 1600, or about 250 years before the events shown in the movie under discussion. There was apparently a chap running around in Japan stirring up trouble in the 1860's, but is was a Christian-based rebellion rather than a Samurai-based one. The Samurai-based rebellion was 100% nihonjin-- foreigners need not apply.

Usagi · Post by **Usagi** » Tue Sep 07, 2004 8:59 -0700

Thats his name....Adams.
I see....So its was A chirston Rebel...thats really interesting..Sorry I havent seen Shogun yet...

So most of the Samurai stuff i am getting really rusty on.....thanks ^^