Hiroyuki Sanada as Yoshii ToranagaPhoto: Katie Yu/FX“A Stick Of Time,” the title of Shōgun’s seventh episode and a phrase employed within it, is not a saying I had encountered before in my limited, white-girl existence. It references incense clocks, which originated in Song Dynasty China and spread from there to Japan and Korea. They measure the passing of minutes/hours/etc. in the time it takes to burn sticks of incense; they also provide a nice visual (and certainly a more poetic one than toda

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