During the reign of the shogun, Iemitsu, an epidemic causes the population of men to greatly drop, leading to an ooku where the role of men and women are reversed. Thus, “the women become the shogun, served by 3000 handsome men”
Kazutoyo lived during the end of the Sengoku period (1546-1605). He was the first feudal lord of the...
The 40th NHK Taiga Drama is Hojo Tokimune. It tells the dramatic and turbulent life of young shikken...
The story takes place during the Muromachi period of Ancient Japan, in the midst of the Ōnin War. Th...
This drama tells the story of the Oushu Fujiwara clan spanning generations, 140 years in the late He...
On March 23, 1585, Japanese Christian envoys visited Pope Gregory XIII at the Papal Court in Rome, I...
The drama centers on Ashikaga Takauji's rise to power, overthrowing the Kamakura shogunate and event...
Focusing on the life of Nene, the good wife who supported Toyotomi Hideyoshi, the world of the Warri...
It depicts how the winner, the Satsuma Clan, and the loser, the Aizu Clan, survive through the Edo p...
Kaze to kumo to Niji to deals with the Heian period in Japan. Based on Chōgorō Kaionji`s novels Tair...
The drama is depicting the life and times in 17th and 18th century Japan during the rule of the eigh...
Shibusawa Eiichi was born in 1840 to a farmer’s family. He grew up helping his family with work, whi...
This is the story about the a very powerful Lady Kasuga who established Ooku the inner palace.
Kōchiyama Sōshun serves as a cha-bōzu (He is kind of tea man) in the administrative headquarters of ...
A story of Yagyu Jubei, master swordsman from the well-known Yagyu-Shinkage school in the Edo period...
After being carried in his mother’s womb for three years, Benkei is born with long hair and teeth an...
A wildly unusual story set in the earliest days of the Meiji era. The story centers around a gatheri...
Ryoma ga Yuku is a five-hour epic which chronicles the life of Sakamoto Ryoma, a pre-revolutionary w...
After spending 20 years searching for the object of his vengeance, Sekiya Kanbei discovers he is now...
The drama depicts in the late Edo period in Nagasaki, Hiramatsu takes up Nagasaki bugyō`s head post....