Hiroyuki Sanada’s Journey from Japan to Shōgun
When Hiroyuki Sanada was a teenager, he read something that had a profound effect on how he viewed the future. Written by Tokugawa Ieyasu on the occasion of his abdication as shōgun, the military leader of Japan, the Testament of Ieyasu contained many lessons, but what stuck out to Sanada was Ieyasu’s first precept: “Life is like walking along a road shouldering a heavy load; there is no need to hurry”
“Never rush. That word hit my heart,” Sanada, 63, tells me over a Zoom call in early February. “I was always…