Genre: Jidaigeki Episodes: TBD (Probably 20) Network: NHK Broadcast: 6.10 p.m., Saturdays, 24 September 2016
RAW credit to DoA
No subtitles
Characters
Takei Emi as Kiyo
A lady-in-waiting at the mansion that the Ako Asano clan established in Edo. She serves Asano Naganori’s legal wife Aguri. The daughter of the head of an Asakusa temple. Her mother died when she was young. She received the help of her mother’s elder sister Senkeini and a cousin who is a wealthy merchant, and grew up innocent. She is good at playing the koto. Her service as a lady-in-waiting was intended to be temporary until she gets a good offer of marriage. Then she meets Isogai Jurozaiemon.
Fukushi Seiji as Isogai Jurozaiemon
A retainer of the Asano clan. He is a military commander. He serves Asano Naganori as a trusted attendant. In his childhood, he was also close to Kiyo but went to Kyoto to train at a temple. After that, he serves the Asano clan. That is how he is reunited with Kiyo after ten years. Although he is an expert in hand drums, he is supposed to serve his lord. He suppresses and suppresses but … …
Imai Tsubasa as Asano Naganori
The third generation head of the Asano clan. Because his father died young, he succeeded him at the mere age of 9. A serious, single-minded and hot-blooded man. He suffers from a chronic illness. In order to uphold the family’s simple, austere traditions … …
Tanaka Rena as Aguri
Asano Naganori’s legal wife. The daughter of a distant relation of the Ako Asano clan, she became his wife at the age of 10. Although they grew up like siblings and a close couple, they did not have children. She is worried about Naganori’s illness and temperament, but … …
Sato Ryuta as Horibe Yasubei
A retainer of the Asano clan. A mounted guard at the Edo mansion. A messenger. He is entreated by Horibe Yahei to become his son-in-law and takes over the reigns of the Horibe clan.
Ishimaru Kanji as Oishi Kuranosuke
The chief retainer of the Asano clan who is entrusted with taking care of the Ako domain when his lord has to be in Edo as a result of the shogunate’s rule that requires feudal lords to alternate residence.
Mita Yoshiko as Senkeini
Kiyo’s aunt. She served the wife of the previous head of the clan and later became an ordained nun. She chants sutras to pray for the dead at Muryoin in Koishikawa. She is lenient and strict with Kiyo.