Born in 1937 in Osaka as the eldest daughter, Kawahara Kimiko moves to Shigaraki with her family at the age of 9. She works to support her family from a young age. Eventually, she jumps into the male world of pottery and becomes a pioneer of female ceramic arts. After marrying her husband who is also involved in ceramics and owning her own kiln, she raises her two children while struggling to create unique ware.
The story follows the 20-year-old Tsubasa who dedicates her life to her family and their shop. Her l...
The 95th NHK Asadora is about Sumire, a girl born in the uptown of Kobe in the early Showa period. I...
Based on true story of the wife of Ando Momofuku, the businessman who founded Nissin Food Products C...
The 56th NHK Asadora Renzoku Drama is Agri. Story's settings include Okayama and Tokyo (Ichigaya). T...
Towards the end of the Edo era, in the town of Kyoto, there lived a wealthy merchant by the name of ...
The 78th NHK Asadora is Hitomi. The series takes place in the old shitamachi area of Tokyo, and in t...
The 74th NHK Asadora Drama is Junjo Kirari, which means something along the lines of "pure-hearted K...
At the age of nine, Haruka moves from Osaka to Yufuin with her father Yosuke and her younger sister ...
A Japanese girl from a poor family named Hanako went on an adventure to study in a girl's Christian ...
Mare is an elementary school student. She lives with her family in the city, but, right before her f...
The 77th NHK Asadora is Chiritotechin. Location includes Fukui prefecture. This renzoku is about Wad...
Fight is a story about fifteen year old Yuu, whose family becomes separated after an incident involv...
Higa Nobuko was born and raised with her four siblings in a farmhouse in the "Yanbaru region" in the...
The 69th NHK Asadora Drama, based on Rei Nakanishi's novel, is about the Iwata family living in Iked...
Massan is based on the lives of Masataka Taketsuru and his wife Jessie Roberta "Rita" Cowan, a Scots...
Born in September of 1995, Momone Nagaura lived with her parents, grandfather, and sister in Kesennu...