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The 1600s: 1600–1609
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Tokugawa Ieyasu won Japan's civil wars at Sekigahara in 1600 and founded a peace that would last 250 years. In London, merchants chartered the East India Company the same year, and Shakespeare's company performed Hamlet around 1600-01.
Sekigahara in 1600 is the founding battle of early modern Japan. James Clavell's Shogun lands its English pilot in that Japan, and the series Gunpowder plots the Catholic conspiracy that ended in London in 1605. Open the 1600s on the StoryTerra map and explore its stories by place.
10 famous stories set in the 1600s
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Browse 43 books, 8 movies, 1 TV show and 2 games set in the 1600s (1600–1609).
Day of Wrath
In a Danish village in the early 1600s a young woman named Anne whose mother was thought to be a witch develops sympathy toward an old woman Marte who is accused of witchcraft. The intervention of Anne's older but…
Shogun, Part 1
This is James Clavell's tour-de-force; an epic saga of one Pilot-Major John Blackthorne, and his integration into the struggles and strife of feudal Japan. Both entertaining and incisive, SHOGUN is a stunningly dramatic…
Shōgun
Alternate Cover for ISBN: 0440178002A bold English adventurer. An invincible Japanese warlord. A beautiful woman torn between two ways of life. All brought together in an extraordinary saga aflame with passion,…
Orlando
England 1600. Queen Elizabeth I promises Orlando a young nobleman obsessed with poetry that she will grant him land and fortune if he agrees to satisfy a very particular request.
Coven
French Basque Country year 1609. The men of a small fishing village have gone to sea. Judge Rostegui who has been charged by the king with ridding the country of the devil's wiles arrests Ana and her friends and accuses…
Vagabond, Vol. 1
This VIZBIG edition of Vagabond contains Volumes 1-3 and bonus color content.Invincible Under the SunReal-life figure Miyamoto Musashi was the most celebrated samurai of all time. The quintessential warrior-philosopher,…
Gunpowder
London, 1605. Robert Catesby, a 33-year old Warwickshire gentleman, devises a plot to blow up Parliament and kill the King.
Sekigahara
The background to and depiction of a watershed battle in Japanese history at Sekigahara in 1600 when Tokugawa Ieyasu's Army of the East defeated the Army of the West of Ishida Mitsunari. The story includes the intrigues…
Hamlet, Prince of Denmark
Listening Length: 9 hours and 40 minutesIt is a tale of ghosts, of madness, of revenge - of old alliances giving way to new intrigues. Denmark is changing, shaking off its medieval past. War with Norway is on the…
Crazy Samurai Musashi
In 1604 Miyamoto Musashi attacked the Yoshioka family at their dojo and defeated master Seijūrō and his younger brother Denshichirō in two duels. To save their reputation the Yoshioka family decides to fight back with…
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