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Shōgun Recap: A Funeral in Edo
If Toranaga is disingenuous about surrendering, he has an odd way of conveying it.
The sky has been gray over Japan for a while now in Shōgun, matching the uneasy, sometimes despairing mood of the series’ characters, but it appears especially grim as “The Abyss of Life” opens and Toranaga’s party makes its way to Edo. For Blackthorne, arriving at Edo brings conflicting feelings: He looks forward to being reunited with his crew, but, as he has no plans of traveling with Toranaga to Osaka, it also means parting ways with Mariko, which he most certainly does not want to do. He’s not so ill as to be without need of Mariko, as she learns when Buntaro interrupts a meeting with Ochiba’s sister and her child (who can at least rest easy having received word that her family will be spared after Toranaga’s surrender).
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