is a 1983 Japanese television series. It is the 21st NHK ''taiga'' drama. The drama is based on the novel of the same name by Sōhachi Yamaoka.

Plot

The story chronicles the life of

Tokugawa Ieyasu was the founder and first ''shōgun'' of the Tokugawa Shogunate of Japan, which ruled Japan from 1603 until the Meiji Restoration in 1868. He was one of the three "Great Unifiers" of Japan, along with his former lord Oda Nobunaga and fel ...

Production

Production Credits *Original – Souhachi Yamamoto *Music –

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*Narrator – Naomitsu Tateno *Historical research – Keizō Suzuki *Sword fight arranger - Kunishirō Hayashi

Cast

Starring role

* Sakae Takita as

(episodes 7-50) ** Yōji Matsuda as Teen Ieyasu (episode 6) **Yoshitaka Kase as Child Ieyasu (episodes 3-5)

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as Odai no Kata - mother of Ieyasu * Masaomi Kondō as Matsudaira Hirotada - father of Ieyasu *

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as Keyōin - grandmother of Ieyasu * Kimiko Ikegami as Lady Tsukiyama - wife of Ieyasu * Hiroshi Katsuno as

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- third son of Ieyasu *

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as Honda Sakuzaemon * Shinjirō Ehara as Ishikawa Kazumasa * Taketoshi Naito as

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* Hirotarō Honda as Honda Masazumi *Sen Yamamoto as Itakura Katsushige *

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as Torii Tadayoshi * Sei Hiraizumi as Ii Naomasa * Kōsuke Toyohara as Ii Naomasa (young) * Katsumasa Uchida as Sakakibara Yasumasa *Masuyo Iwamoto as Asahi-hime - second wife of Ieyasu *

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as Lady Saigō - concubine of Ieyasu * Ken Tanaka as

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- sixth son of Ieyasu * Masahiko Tsugawa as Ōkubo Nagayasu * Junkichi Orimoto as Ōkubo Tadayo *

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- second son of Ieyasu *

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as Ōkubo Tadakazu

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* Kōji Yakusho as

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*Takao Itō as

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*Mariko Fuji as Nōhime * Minori Terada as

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* Rokko Toura as

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as Nene - wife of Hideyoshi *Mitsue Suzuki as

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- mother of Hideyoshi *

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- concubine of Hideyoshi * Gō Rijū as

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- son of Hideyoshi *Mariko Ishihara as

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- wife of Hideyori *

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as Shima Sakon *

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* Tetsurō Sagawa as

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* Shinsuke Mikimoto as

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*Tōru Yokoi as

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*Mitsuo Hamada as

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* Keiju Kobayashi as Sessai Choro, Ieyasu's master

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* Kei Satō as

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*Shinji Tōdō as

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as Yamagata Masakage *Takeo Namai as

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* Katsuhiko Watabiki as

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as Ōtani Yoshitsugu *

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* Onoe Tatsunosuke I as

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as Naya Shōan (fictional character) * Misako Konno as Kinomi (fictional character) * Gorō Mutsumi as

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* Masami Horiuchi as

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*Jin Nakayama as Chaya Shirōjirō Kiyonobu

TV schedule

References

External links

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NHK Tokugawa Ieyasu official
Taiga drama 1983 Japanese television series debuts 1983 Japanese television series endings Cultural depictions of Akechi Mitsuhide Cultural depictions of Date Masamune Cultural depictions of Oda Nobunaga Cultural depictions of Tokugawa Ieyasu Cultural depictions of Toyotomi Hideyoshi Cultural depictions of Sanada clan Jidaigeki Television shows based on Japanese novels {{Japan-tv-prog-stub