What to Read Next If You've Got 'Shogun' Fever

While you may have enjoyed the samurai stylings of Hulu’s Shogun—the plotting, the fighting, the politicking, the seppuku—would you believe it was actually based on a true story? Okay fine, the based-on-a-true-story of it all was probably clear all along (it’d be a pretty weird thing to make up), but the truth is that Shogun, while fictional, has more real-life analogues than you probably even imagined. And that’s a good thing, because feudal Japan is a setting so rich that it feels like it has far more to offer than even a ten-hour miniseries can cover.

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