Atsuhime

Name: Atsuhime
Genre: Drama
Released: 2008-01-06
Rating: 9
Cast: Aoi Miyazaki, Eita Nagayama, Maki Horikita, Rie Tomosaka, Ikki Sawamura

9.0First aired 2008-01-06Last aired 2008-12-14Status: Ended

Drama

Seasons: 1
Episodes: 50
Networks: NHK BS1, NHK

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.