History Literature / TheThousandAutumnsOfJacobDeZoet

* NotGoodWithPeople: Dr. Marinus is the biggest asshole in Dejima who is not actively evil.

* DeusExMachina: Penhaligon stops firing on Dijima because [[spoiler: Jacob's red hair reminds him of his son.]] Possibly [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded]] by the fact that Jacob is reciting [[Literature/TheBible the 23 Psalm]] at the time.

* BittersweetEnding: Could also be a DownerEnding, depending on how the reader views it.

* DrJerk: Marinus is by no means pleasant, but he is a man of fierce principles.
* EatsBabies: Yeah, [[spoiler: Enomoto]] is just that evil.

* IndyPloy: Jacob towards the end has to rely on these.
* UsefulNotes/JapaneseChristian: forbidden in Japan at the time, all the Dutch have to surrender their bibles, crosses, and other Christian aritfacts before they set foot on Dejima. Jacob manages to hide his psalter, a fact that becomes important later on in the book

* PeopleFarms: What [[spoiler: Enomoto's monastery]] turns out to be.

* BeingGoodSucks: The novel is one long example of Jacob being unrewarded (at best) and punished (at worst) for his honesty.
* BittersweetEnding: Could also be a DownerEnding, depending on how the reader views it.
%% * ButtMonkey: Jacob, especially in Part 1.

%% * CharacterDevelopment: both Jacob and Orito Aibagawa.
%% * TheChessmaster: Enomoto.

* DeusExMachina: Pendergast stops firing on Dijima because [[spoiler: Jacob's red hair reminds him of his son.]] Possibly [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded]] by the fact that Jacob is reciting [[Literature/TheBible the 23 Psalm]] at the time.
%% * DidNotGetTheGirl
%% * DrJerk: Marinus

* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: The ''Phoebus'' arc of the British ship under Captain John Penhaligon is clearly based on the ''HMS Phaeton'' Incident in Nagasaki harbor in 1808, though certain differences are clear. The main parts, that a British ship arrives in Nagasaki under Dutch flag, captures representatives of the Dutch, and unsuccessfully tries to bargain with the Japanese and Dutch before [[spoiler: leaving without combat, followed by the suicide of the Nagasaki magistrate]], are unchanged. The primary differences are the character of the British captain: The real captain Fleetwood Pellew was actually an 18 year old blood knight with a power career, while the captain from the novel is an old tired man, primarily concerned with his retirement. De Zoet is however clearly based on Hendrik Doeff, the Dutch commander at the time of the incident, and the Japanese faces similar problems with lack of preparation on understaffing, though [[spoiler: the novel provides a different reason for the magistrates suicide.]] Also, the British never bombed Dejima in real life, and was not itnerested in negotiating with the Japanese for trade relations, but merely plundering Dutch ships in the harbor.
%% * NotGoodWithPeople: Dr. Marinus
%% * OutGambitted: [[spoiler: Ogawa]].
%% * PeopleFarms
%% * ScrewTheMoneyIHaveRules: Jacob again
* {{Seppuku}}: Subverted. [[spoiler: Enomoto]] thinks that [[spoiler:Shiriyama]] is intending to commit seppuku. Instead, [[spoiler:Shiriyama]] poisons himself, his chairman and [[spoiler: Enomoto]]
%% * SmugSnake: Peter Fischer
* ThisIsUnforgivable: [[spoiler:The magistrate Shiriyama]] says this to [[spoiler: Enomoto]] as they're both dying.

* TouchOfDeath:
** [[spoiler: Enomoto]] has the unnerving ability to remove the "ki" from lesser creatures, effectively killing them instantly.

** Marinus also appears in Mitchell's follow up, ''Literature/TheBoneClocks'' [[spoiler:where it is revealed that he is an immortal that is reincarnated into new bodies after death. Marinus also lets drop in that book that he once encountered a mysterious monk in Nagasaki who was found to be using a rudimentary [[SoulEating psycho-decanter]]. It's similar to the Chapel of the Dusk of the Blind Cathar, but ''far'' less dangerous.]]

* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: If the report Jacob receives is any indication, Enomoto kills [[spoiler: Shuzai and the ten mercenaries]] after they deliver [[spoiler: Ogawa]] to him.

%%* IdenticalLookingAsians: Completely subverted by the narrative, but the more ignorant white characters tend to view them this way.

This is the fifth novel by {{David Mitchell|Author}}. It was published in 2010 and is a current New York Times Hardcover Bestseller. Well worth reading.

This is the fifth novel by David Mitchell, author of ''Literature/CloudAtlas'' and ''Literature/TheBoneClocks''. It was published in 2010 and is a current New York Times Hardcover Bestseller. Well worth reading.

** Marinus also appears in Mitchell's follow up, ''Literature/TheBoneClocks'' [[spoiler:where it is revealed that he is an immortal that is reincarnated into new bodies after death]]

* ChristianityInJapan: forbidden in Japan at the time, all the Dutch have to surrender their bibles, crosses, and other Christian aritfacts before they set foot on Dejima. Jacob manages to hide his psalter, a fact that becomes important later on in the book

%%* AllAsiansAreAlike: Completely subverted by the narrative, but the more ignorant white characters tend to view them this way

* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: The ''Phoebus'' arc of the British ship under Captain John Penhaligon is clearly based on the ''HMS Phaeton'' Incident in Nagasaki harbor in 1808, though certain differences are clear. The main parts, that a British ship arrives in Nagasaki under Dutch flag, captures representatives of the Dutch, and unsuccessfully tries to bargain with the Japanese and Dutch before [[spoiler: leaving without combat, followed by the suicide of the Nagasaki magistrate]], are unchanged. THe primary differences are the character of the British captain: The real captain Fleetwood Pellew was actually an 18 year old blood knight with a power career, while the captain from the novel is an old tired man, primarily concerned with his retirement. De Zoet is however clearly based on Hendrik Doeff, the Dutch commander at the time of the incident, and the Japanese faces similar problems with lack of preparation on understaffing, though [[spoiler: the novel provides a different reason for the magistrates suicide.]] Also, the British never bombed Dejima in real life, and was not itnerested in negotiating with the Japanese for trade relations, but merely plundering Dutch ships in the harbor.

* ButtMonkey: Jacob, especially in Part 1.

* CharacterDevelopment: both Jacob and Orito Aibagawa

* [[spoiler: DidNotGetTheGirl]]
* DrJerk: Marinus
* [[spoiler: EatsBabies]]: Yeah, [[spoiler: Enomoto]] is just that evil.

* [[TheChessmaster The Master of Go]]: Enomoto.

* NotGoodWithPeople: Dr. Marinus
* OutGambitted: [[spoiler: Ogawa]].
* [[spoiler: PeopleFarms]]
* ScrewTheMoneyIHaveRules: Jacob again

* SmugSnake: Peter Fischer

* TouchOfDeath: [[spoiler: Enomoto]] has the unnerving ability to remove the "ki" from lesser creatures, effectively killing them instantly.

This is the fifth novel by David Mitchell, author of ''Literature/CloudAtlas''. It was published in 2010 and is a current New York Times Hardcover Bestseller. Well worth reading.

** Marinus also appears in Mitchell's follow up, [[TheBoneClocks The Bone Clocks]] [[spoiler:where it is revealed that he is an immortal that is reincarnated into new bodies after death]]

** Marinus also appears in Mitchell's follow up, {{The Bone Clocks}} [[spoiler:where it is revealed that he is an immortal that is reincarnated into new bodies after death]]

** Marinus also appears in Mitchell's follow up, The Bone Clocks [[spoiler:where it is revealed that he is an immortal that is reincarnated into new bodies after death]]

** [[spoiler: The last chapter has Jacob ride back to his home country aboard the “Profetes,” with a servant named “Boerhaave.” This is the same ship that appears in Cloud Atlas, during “The Pacific Journal of Adam Ewing,” where Boerhaave has graduated to first mate]]

* [[TheChessmaster The Master of Go]]: Enomoto.

* {{Tearjerker}}

* VillainWithGoodPublicity: [[spoiler:Unico Vorstenbosch]] by the end of part one and [[spoiler: Lord Abbot Enomoto]] until his KarmicDeath

* AllAsiansAreAlike: Completely subverted by the narrative, but the more ignorant white characters tend to view them this way