Shōgun

Now reading James Clavell's highly acclaimed novel Shōgun. It is the first novel (chronologically speaking) in Clavell's Asian Saga. It is set in feudal Japan somewhere around the year 1600 and gives a highly fictionalized account of the rise of Tokugawa Ieyasu to the Shogunate, seen through the eyes of an English sailor whose fictional heroics are loosely based on Willam Adams' exploits.

It's a wonderfully engrossing historical novel so far.