What attracted Lady Mariko to Catholicism?
That was one thing I was really trying to understand. I didn’t know how you could be Catholic and a samurai, because they feel so opposite. But it’s not because Mariko believes in the power of the religion, or the money, or the politics. She wasn’t interested in any of that. It was more that the Catholic priest reached his hand out when she really needed something to hold onto. It could have been anything, but it happened to be that. She found light where she couldn’t see any.
I interviewed Anna Sawai, star of Shōgun (and Monarch and Pachinko), for the New York Times.
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