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Atsuhime
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.
Seasons
- Season 1 — 50 episodes (January 6, 2008)
Cast
- Aoi Miyazaki as Okatsu / Atsu-hime
- Eita Nagayama as Kimotsuki Naogoro
- Maki Horikita as Princess Kazu
- Rie Tomosaka
- Ikki Sawamura as Komatsu Kiyomichi
- Hideki Takahashi
- Taizo Harada
- Kimiko Yo as Hisa-hime
- Hiroshi Tamaki
- Kanako Higuchi
- Atsuko Takahata as Honjuin
- Kyōzō Nagatsuka
Details
- Created by
- Tomiko Miyao
- First aired
- January 6, 2008
- Episodes
- 50
- Genres
- Drama
- Network
- NHK BS1 and NHK
- Status
- Ended
- TMDB score
- 9.0 / 10 from 8 votes
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