Who is Shogun actress Anna Sawai? 会合，会う Lady Toda Mariko who fans can't stop raving about and the true story behind her character

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Disney+'s 10-episode series Shogun has reached its 結論 and fans are calling for 女性（の） lead Anna Sawai to be rewarded?in the next awards season for a stellar 業績／成果.

As lead character Lady Toda Mariko, Sawai, 31, 星／主役にするs as 'a woman with invaluable 技術s but dishonourable family 関係, who must 証明する her value and 忠誠'.

Shogun is an adaptation of James Clavell's 1975 novel by the same 指名する, which is a fictionalisation of real people and events from 17th century Japan.

As a result, Lady Makiro is 現実に based on a real person some 350 years ago.

So, who is Anna Sawai, and what is the true story of her character?

Disney+'s 10-episode series Shogun has reached its 結論 and fans are calling for 女性（の） lead Anna Sawai (seen as Lady Toda Mariko) to be rewarded for a stellar 業績／成果

Sawai took a break from 事実上の／代理 when she was 21 to join a Japanese girl group, but has had a very successful return to 審査するs

Who is Anna Sawai?

Anna Sawai was born on June 11, 1992, in Wellington, New Zealand, but 開始する，打ち上げるd her 事実上の／代理 career 老年の 11 after moving to Japan the previous year.

In 2004 she starred in a 行う／開催する／段階 生産／産物 in Tokyo, and five years later she made her film debut in 戦争の arts film Ninja 暗殺者.

However, Sawai took a break from 事実上の／代理 役割s when she was 21 as a lead vocalist in girl group FAKY, which rose her stardom in Japan.

But she left the 禁止（する）d after five years to go 支援する to 追求するing her 事実上の／代理 career and landed a 役割 in BBC 罪，犯罪 series Giri/Hagi.

Her next big 役割 saw her on the Hollywood silver 審査する in 2021's 急速な／放蕩な & Furious 9 as Elle Lue.

Between then and 存在 the 女性（の） lead in Disney+ 攻撃する，衝突する Shogun, Sawai has also featured in Apple TV's series Pachinko and?君主: 遺産／遺物 of Monsters.

Sawai took a break from 事実上の／代理 役割s when she was 21 as a lead vocalist in girl group FAKY. Seen centre-権利 with bandmates (L-R) Lil' Fang, Akina and Mikako

Returning from her musical hiatus, the actress (seen centre) landed a 役割 on 2019 BBC 罪，犯罪 series Giri/Hagi

Sawai made her Hollywood debut in 急速な／放蕩な & Furious 9. She is seen in the film with Sung Kang

She also starred in Apple TV series?君主: 遺産／遺物 of Monsters (pictured)

Is Lady Mariko in Shogun a real person?

The real woman behind Lady Toda Mariko is Akechi Tama, also known as?Hosokawa Gracia - a 16th century Japanese aristocrat and the daughter of General Akechi Mitsuhide (Akechi Jinsai in Shogun), who served under the first unifier of Japan, Lord Oda Nobunaga (Shogun's Kuroda).?

Age 15, Tama married the eldest son of Fujitaka Hosokawa (Toda Hiromatsu in Shogun) - Tadaoki (Toda Buntaro in the series) - another powerful 将軍 of the time.?

Tadaoki was a 高度に educated 軍の 指揮官, and he and Tama had five children.

However, Tama was caught at the heart of a 力／強力にする struggle in 1582, when she was 19, when her father?betrayed and assassinated Lord Nobunaga before 存在 killed himself in 戦う／戦い a month later.

Tama's 評判 苦しむd and she spent two years in 追放する after which she lived in Osaka. We see the 緊張 her 評判 brings in episode six between Mariko and?Ochiba No Kata (Fumi Nikaido).

In Osaka, Tama 変えるd to Catholicism and assumed her Christian 指名する -?Gracia - 原因（となる）ing 衝突 with her husband によれば 文書d history of the family. Christianity had been brought to Japan in the late 16th century by Spanish and Portuguese missionaries.

Legends speak of how 'once the time （機の）カム t o put on her armor and 開始する her horse to 直面する the enemy, Tama was no いっそう少なく in valor than a man'.

When the Hosokawas joined 軍隊s with Tokugawa Ieyasu (Yoshii Toranaga in Shogun) in 1600, Tama remained in Osaka, but went on to play a pivotal 役割 in the war to come.

One untruth in Shogun is Mariko's 関係 with John Blackthorne - who is based on William Adams, the first English sailor to reach Japan in 1600.?

While Adams 持続するd a friendship with?Tokugawa, he 明らかに never met Tama, who by this point was known as Lady Gracia, as she was never Tokugawa's 翻訳家.

While episode nine of Shogun overstates the real Lady Gracia's fight in her Osaka mansion, Ishida Mitsunari (Shogun's Ishido) did order for her and her children to be taken 人質.

Lady Gracia 辞退するd 逮捕（する）, instead preferring 自殺. However, as her 約束 決定するd 自殺 to be a sin, she ordered a servant to kill her, which he did.

Though Ishida 報道によれば 主張するd he was not 責任がある her death, the event shocked Osaka and principally her husband - who was fighting to the East.

In the months that followed,?Hosokawa and?Tokugawa （機の）カム out 勝利を得た in the 戦う／戦い of?Sekigahara - the largest in the history of 封建的 Japan - 覆うing the way for two-and-a-half centuries of the Tokugawa's 軍の 支配する of the country.?

Lady Mariko is based on real 16th century Japanese 将軍's daughter Akechi Tama, better known now as Lady Hosokawa Gracia?

One falsehood in Shogun is that Tama never really met English sailor William Adams, who is 現在のd in the series by?Cosmo Jarvis as John Blackthorne (pictured)

にもかかわらず Shogun's success, its? co-creator has 暗示するd that it will not be 支援する for a second season, as the 10 episodes reach the end of the 調書をとる／予約する it is 奮起させるd by

Will there be a Shogun season 2?

The Tokugawa shogunate (軍の 独裁政治) （一定の）期間d the end of the volatile feudalist 行う／開催する／段階 in Japan's history, and the epilogue of James Clavell's novel.

FX is yet to 新たにする Shogun にもかかわらず its 抱擁する success and co-creator Justin 示すs told The Direct?in February 2024: 'I think we tell the 完全にする story of the 調書をとる／予約する. And we get to the end.'

示すs also について言及するd how much time - around five year - has gone into creating the 10-part series as 推論する／理由 to leave it be.?

The series has received an astonishing 99 per cent 得点する／非難する／２０ on Rotten Tomatoes まっただ中に 全世界の acclaim.