Set amidst the backdrop of the Bakumatsu Period of Japan (The Last Days of the Tokugawa Shogunate), Hatamoto takes us into the world of the foreign born men who became direct Vassals of the 15th & final Shogun during the opening salvos of the Boshin War. For former American Southerner John Paul Ledoux turned Samurai Vassal, he will face the wrath of his Clan’s most senior swordsman Sir Nobutomo Matsunaga and an uncertain future he will do everything he has sworn to protect.