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Yoshimune’s father Sorin was in many ways an enigma, a figure that defies easy explanation. Was Sorin, the most important Japanese ever to be baptized, sincere in his new faith and a crusader of the Christian cause? Or was he merely pragmatic, an opportunist who saw something to be gained by paying lip service to the foreigners and their religious ideas? Little studied in the west, Otomo Sorin and his clan stand, if nothing else, as an interesting chapter in the Sengoku period.

Yoshimune’s father Sorin was in many ways an enigma, a figure that defies easy explanation. Was Sorin, the most important Japanese ever to be baptized, sincere in his new faith and a crusader of the Christian cause? Or was he merely pragmatic, an opportunist who saw something to be gained by paying lip service to the foreigners and their religious ideas? Little studied in the west, Otomo Sorin and his clan stand, if nothing else, as an interesting chapter in the Sengoku period.

 

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