Why Shogun Episode 10 Ends Without Showing The Actual War Explained By Creators

The following contains spoilers for Shogun episode 10

Show creators Rachel Kondo and Justin Marks explain why Shogun episode 10 ends without showing the actual war.

The Shogun season finale set up war between Toranaga and Ishido, but didn't show the actual combat between their armies, and creators Kondo and Marks have explained why this choice was made (via THR):

MARKS: I think the book denies us this, too. And that’s what I really appreciate about the book is that you really, even turning the last page, you’re like, but what about…? And you realize it doesn’t matter if you’ve really understood what this story is trying to be. Never for a second in the writer’s room did we ever really say that we were after [a final battle]. Not because we couldn’t afford it — although we couldn’t. But because Clavell was not telling that kind of story.

KONDO It’s that line from Toranaga: “Why is it always that the people who are so eager to go into battle are the ones who have never been in it?”