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Status
Ended
Release
2008 - 2008
Seasons / Eps
1 / 50
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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.
24 Cast Members
Aoi Miyazaki
Okatsu / Atsu-hime
50 Episodes
Eita Nagayama
Kimotsuki Naogoro
50 Episodes
Maki Horikita
Princess Kazu
50 Episodes
Rie Tomosaka
50 Episodes
Ikki Sawamura
Komatsu Kiyomichi
50 Episodes
Hideki Takahashi
50 Episodes
Taizo Harada
50 Episodes
Kimiko Yo
Hisa-hime
50 Episodes
Hiroshi Tamaki
50 Episodes
Kanako Higuchi
50 Episodes
Atsuko Takahata
Honjuin
50 Episodes
Kyōzō Nagatsuka
50 Episodes
Mayu Tsuruta
50 Episodes
Yuriko Yoshitaka
50 Episodes
Mikako Ichikawa
Oryu
50 Episodes
Masato Sakai
Tokugawa Iesachi
50 Episodes
Kinya Kitaoji
50 Episodes
Masao Kusakari
Abe Masahiro
50 Episodes
Tomoko Nakajima
50 Episodes
Kenichi Yajima
50 Episodes
