Plot
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.
Cast
Aoi Miyazaki
as Okatsu / Atsu-hime
Eita Nagayama
as Kimotsuki Naogoro
Maki Horikita
as Princess Kazu
Ikki Sawamura
as Komatsu Kiyomichi
Kimiko Yo
as Hisa-hime