The Samurai (Cyclopedia of Literary Characters)
At a glance:
- Author: Shūsaku Endō
- First Published: 1980
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Historical realism
- Time of Work: 1612-1624
- Setting: Japan, New Spain, Spain, and Italy
- Genres: Long fiction
- Subjects: Politics, Missions or missionaries, Seventeenth century, Rulers, Catholics or Catholic Church, Italy or Italians, Japan or Japanese people, Spain or Spanish people, Isolation, Samurai
- Locales: Spain, Italy, Japan, New Spain
Characters Discussed
Rokuemon Hasekura (roh-KEW-eh- mon), a rural samurai (military knight) with the rank of lance- corporal (yari-gochō) in His Lordship’s gun corps. He is the master of the family fief in the marshland of northeastern Japan, a feudal vassal of the most powerful daimyō (feudal nobleman) of the region. A short, well-built man in his early thirties, he has sunken eyes, high cheekbones, a flat nose, and long black hair tied up with white ribbon. Unprepossessing in appearance, he seems more a peasant than a samurai. Although he is a man of...
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