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Shōgun Recap: Family Matters
As we learn more about Toranaga’s past, his plans for the future seem more uncertain than ever.
It makes her unavailable to Omi and gives Gin a chance to plant a seed by suggesting to the young lord that Blackthorne’s thoughts would really have been with someone else during his time with Kiku at the tea house. In return for attempting to ingratiate himself to Ishido in anticipation of Toranaga’s rival coming out on top, Yabushige receives the severed head of the messenger he sent to Osaka, a reply he greets with a (perfectly in-character) dark chuckle. During their stick of time, she proposes that his plans for Edo, the growing metropolis later to be named Tokyo, include a district carved out for courtesans and classy tea houses.
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