Atsuhime S1E1

Episodes

1. Child of Destiny

2. Vow at Sakurajima

3. Satsuma Divide

4. A Wise Lord Angered

5. Japan's Best Man

6. A Woman's Destiny

7. The Father's Tears

8. How to be a Princess

9. Atsuhime is Born

10. Determined to Become the Shogun's Wife

11. Reunion on the Tanabata

12. Farewell, Sakurajima

13. The Mother in Edo

14. The Father's Wish

15. The Princess Goes to Battle

16. Cherry Blossoms Amidst Tumult

17. An Unexpected Marriage

18. Nariakira's Secret Orders

19. Ascend to the Ooku

20. The Wedding Night

21. Battle of the Wives

22. The Shogun's Secret

23. The Better Man

24. It's Unforgivable, Atsu-hime

25. A Mother's Love and Hate

26. A Hell-Raising Petition

27. Wife of the Tokugawa

28. Two Wills

29. Tenshoin Atsu-hime

30. The Shogun's Mother

31. Farewell, Ikushima

32. The Incident Outside Sakuradamon Gate

33. Princess Kazu

34. Imperial Court and Feudal Clan

35. Dagger of Doubt

36. Satsuma or Tokugawa

37. Friendship and Parting

38. Heart of the Mother-In-Law, Heart of the Wife

39. Satsuma Burns

40. Son Taking the Field

41. Satcho Alliance

42. The Death of the Son

43. The Determination of the Wife

44. Ryoma Dies

45. A Letter from Mother

46. Yoshinobu Rescued

47. Ooku's Messenger

48. Bloodless Surrender

49. Reunion on the Eve of Meiji

50. One Path

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Atsuhime

Drama

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.

Date: 01/06/2008

Rating: 9.0

Cast: Aoi Miyazaki, Eita Nagayama, Maki Horikita, Rie Tomosaka, Ikki Sawamura, Hideki Takahashi, Taizo Harada, Kimiko Yo, Hiroshi Tamaki, Kanako Higuchi, Atsuko Takahata, Kyōzō Nagatsuka, Mayu Tsuruta, Yuriko Yoshitaka, Mikako Ichikawa, Masato Sakai, Kinya Kitaoji, Masao Kusakari, Tomoko Nakajima, Kenichi Yajima, Mayumi Wakamura, Sumie Sasaki, Yoshinori Okada

Aoi Miyazaki