Legendary Woman Samurai: Hosokawa Gracia

Not Just the Tudors

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🗓️ 20 June 2024

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Toda Mariko, or Mariko-san, one of the main characters from the new TV series Shogun - adapted from James Clavell's epic novel - is based on a real woman, Hosokawa Gracia. Who was she? Was she the zealous Christian martyr depicted in Jesuit missionary accounts, or a wife duty-bound to protect the honour of her family? Or was she the defiant female warrior of Japanese folklore?

In this episode of Not Just the Tudors, Professor Suzannah Lipscomb talks to Professor Frederik Cryns, who was the historical advisor for the Shogun series and is writing a new biography of Hosokawa Gracia.

This episode was edited by Ella Blaxill and produced by Rob Weinberg.

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0:00.0	Welcome to True Spies.
0:02.0	The podcast that takes you deep inside the greatest secret missions of all time.
0:08.0	Suddenly out of the dark disappear from Lavin.
0:10.0	You'll meet the people who live life under cover.
0:13.5	What do they know?
0:14.6	What are their skills?
0:15.9	And what would you do in their position?
0:18.3	Vengeance felt good.
0:19.8	Seeing these people pay for what they've done felt righteous.
0:24.0	True Spies from Spiescape Studios, wherever you get your podcasts. Hello, I'm Professor Suzanne Ellipscombe, and welcome to not just the Tudors from History Hit.
0:40.0	The podcast in which we explore everything from Anne Berlin to the Aztecs, from Holbein to the Huguenose,
0:46.2	from Shakespeare to Summarise. Relieved by regular doses of murder, espionage and witchcraft.
0:54.3	Not in other words of the same name,
1:12.4	you cannot have helped by being gripped by the strong female lead, the figure of Toto Mariko.
1:19.0	Mariko was based on a real woman.
1:22.8	In history, she didn't become the intimate of the English samurai,
1:26.2	but she was an extraordinary figure.
1:28.8	Although her birth name was Aquetama,
1:31.8	we know her as Hokosawa-atia or Garasha. Born in 1563, she lived in
1:38.0	funeral Japan at the end of the Sinkaku period. What is true of her life and her beliefs can be hard to
1:45.6	decipher. Was she the zealous Christian martyr depicted in Jesuit missionary
1:50.4	accounts? A wife duty-bound to protect the honor of her family, or the defiant female
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