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06/01/2008 Drama 0h 45m
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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.

Top billed cast

  1. Aoi Miyazaki

    Okatsu / Atsu-hime

  2. Eita Nagayama

    Kimotsuki Naogoro

  3. Maki Horikita

    Princess Kazu

  4. Rie Tomosaka

  5. Ikki Sawamura

    Komatsu Kiyomichi

  6. Hideki Takahashi

  7. Taizo Harada

  8. Kimiko Yo

    Hisa-hime

  9. Hiroshi Tamaki

  10. View more

Full Cast & Crew

Current Season

Season 1

 2008 | 50 Episodes

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Status
Ended

Original Language
Japanese

Original Name
篤姫

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