The Saga of Tanegashima
Well before “Shogun” as warring clans were fighting for power throughout Japan, a Portuguese vessel ran aground off Tanegashima. Lord Tokitaka helped Captain Pinto repair his ship. The grateful captain offered the lord a gift--a matchlock musket—the first firearm ever seen in Japan. But like a great stone hurled into placid waters, this simple gift will start a revolution. Tokitaka tasks Kinbei, his greatest swordsmith, to copy this musket and build guns for Japan. While Kinbei struggles to forge Japan’s first musket, a great love blooms between Captain Pinto and Kinbei’s daughter Wakasa. But for Kinbei, to let Wakasa marry Pinto and go to Portugal is unthinkable. And as Kinbei creates Japan’s first matchlock factory, Lord Oda Nobunaga will seize upon firearms as the key to sweep all other clans before him, tearing a blood-soaked path of destruction through Japan.
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Rick Jason
Captain Pinto
Ayako Wakao
Wakasa
Eijirō Tōno
Kinbei Yaita
Shiho Fujimura
Otane
Jun Fujimaki
Nobunaga Oda
Asao Koike
Matasaburo Tachibanaya
Ichirō Nakatani
Sakuji
Rokkō Toura
Wufeng
Ryūtarō Gomi
Tokitada Oribenojô
Taketoshi Naitō
Tokiaki Tanegashima
Kōichi Mizuhara
Shigeomi
Saburo Date
Tokunoshin Wakita
Gen Kimura
Tokuzô
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Wakami
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