Atsuhime — Season 1, Episode 30: The Shogun's Mother
Drama • 43 min • 1 season, 50 episodes • ★ 9.0/10
Episode synopsis
Yoshitomi, the new shogun, arrives at Edo castle and is renamed as Iemochi. Tenshoin renews her hopes to become his guardian. Ikushima informs her intention to resign to take responsibility for failing to make Yoshinobu shogun. Disturbed with Tenshoin's involvement in politics, Ii begins to clamp down dissidents and asks her to reveal whereabouts of Saigo who was maneuvering to bring Ii down.
About Atsuhime
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.