Atsuhime
06/01/2008
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.
TV Show Information
Aoi Miyazaki
as Okatsu / Atsu-hime
Eita Nagayama
as Kimotsuki Naogoro
Maki Horikita
as Princess Kazu
Rie Tomosaka
as
Ikki Sawamura
as Komatsu Kiyomichi
Hideki Takahashi
as
Taizo Harada
as
Kimiko Yo
as Hisa-hime
Hiroshi Tamaki
as
Kanako Higuchi
as
Atsuko Takahata
as Honjuin
Kyōzō Nagatsuka
as
Mayu Tsuruta
as
Yuriko Yoshitaka
as
Mikako Ichikawa
as Oryu
Masato Sakai
as Tokugawa Iesachi
Kinya Kitaoji
as
Masao Kusakari
as Abe Masahiro
Tomoko Nakajima
as
Kenichi Yajima
as
Mayumi Wakamura
as
Sumie Sasaki
as
Yoshinori Okada
as
