2008-01-06 9/10
Overview
The 47th NHK Taiga Drama is a life story of Princess Atsu, who was born in Kagoshima Prefecture, then called Satsuma, and became the wife of Tokugawa Iesada, the 13th shogun of the Tokugawa shogunate. She accedes to the highest rank in Ooku, the inner palace of the Edo castle where women related to the reigning shogun resided. Iesada dies soon after their marriage and Atsuhime assumes the name Tenshoin at the age of 23. She exerts herself for the Tokugawa clan and for the nation during the upheaval in the Meiji Restoration, headed by those from Satsuma.
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Cast
Aoi Miyazaki
Eita Nagayama
Maki Horikita
Rie Tomosaka
Ikki Sawamura
Hideki Takahashi
Seasons List
Season 1
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1. Child of Destiny
2. Vow at Sakurajima
3. Satsuma Divide
4. A Wise Lord Angered
5. Japan's Best Man
6. A Woman's Destiny
7. The Father's Tears
8. How to be a Princess
9. Atsuhime is Born
10. Determined to Become the Shogun's Wife
11. Reunion on the Tanabata
12. Farewell, Sakurajima
13. The Mother in Edo
14. The Father's Wish
15. The Princess Goes to Battle
16. Cherry Blossoms Amidst Tumult
17. An Unexpected Marriage
18. Nariakira's Secret Orders
19. Ascend to the Ooku
20. The Wedding Night
21. Battle of the Wives
22. The Shogun's Secret
23. The Better Man
24. It's Unforgivable, Atsu-hime
25. A Mother's Love and Hate
26. A Hell-Raising Petition
27. Wife of the Tokugawa
28. Two Wills
29. Tenshoin Atsu-hime
30. The Shogun's Mother
31. Farewell, Ikushima
32. The Incident Outside Sakuradamon Gate
33. Princess Kazu
34. Imperial Court and Feudal Clan
35. Dagger of Doubt
36. Satsuma or Tokugawa
37. Friendship and Parting
38. Heart of the Mother-In-Law, Heart of the Wife
39. Satsuma Burns
40. Son Taking the Field
41. Satcho Alliance
42. The Death of the Son
43. The Determination of the Wife
44. Ryoma Dies
45. A Letter from Mother
46. Yoshinobu Rescued
47. Ooku's Messenger
48. Bloodless Surrender
49. Reunion on the Eve of Meiji
50. One Path