Aoi (TV series)

The story begins with the battle of Sekigahara. ==Cast==

Tokugawa Shoguns • Masahiko Tsugawa as Tokugawa Ieyasu - the first shogun of the Tokugawa shogunate • Toshiyuki Nishida as Tokugawa Hidetada - the second shogun • Onoe Tatsunosuke II as Tokugawa Iemitsu - the third shogun • Takayuki Yamada as young Iemitsu Tokugawa clan • Shima Iwashita as Ogō - wife of Hidetada • Isuzu Yamada as Odai no Kata - mother of Ieyasu • Kyōko Mitsubayashi as Acha no Tsubone • Minako Osanai as Oman no Kata • Michiko Godai as Lady Chaa • Kirin Kiki as Lady Kasuga • Miki Sakai as Tokugawa Masako • Yoko Moriguchi as Okaji no Kata • Nanako Ōkōchi as Senhime • Marika Matsumoto as young Senhime • Fujita Okamoto as Yūki Hideyasu • Hiroyuki Sakamoto as Matsudaira Tadateru • Lie Katō as Irohahime • Hayato Ōshiba as Tokugawa Yorifusa • Manabu Hamada as Hoshina Masayuki • Asumi Nakada as Haruhime • Yukie Nakama as Oraku • Gen Hongō as Tokugawa Yorinobu • Yūtarō Yamamoto as Nagatomimaru • Hideyuki Akabane as Tokugawa Yoshinao • Ryūnosuke Kamiki as Gorōtamaru (young Yoshinao) • Tomoyo Kurosawa as Ichihime ===Fudai daimyo=== • Shigeru Kōyama as Honda Masanobu • Ikkei Watanabe as Honda Masazumi - the eldest son of Masanobu • Joe Shishido as Honda Tadakatsu - one of the Shitennō • Hiroshi Katsuno as Ii Naomasa - one of the Shitennō • Kōji Shimizu as Sakakibara Yasumasa - one of the Shitennō • Taro Ishida as Ōkubo Tadachika • Takashi Sasano as Torii Mototada • Ryūzō Hayashi as Doi Toshikatsu • Mizuho Suzuki as Itakura Katsushige • Masaki Terasoma as Itakura Shigemasa • Hiroshi Iwasaki as Sakai Tadayo • Katsumi Chō as Naitō Kiyonari • Saburo Ishikura as Aoyama Tadatoshi Toyotomi • Onoe Kikunosuke V as Toyotomi Hideyori • Mayumi Ogawa as Yodo-dono - the second wife of Hideyoshi • Mei Kurokawa as Cha-cha (young Yodo, flashback) • Mitsuko Kusabue as Kōdai-in - the first wife of Hideyoshi • Mayuko Fukuda as Yuihime - the daughter of Hideyori • Nenji Kobayashi as Katagiri Katsumoto • Naoki Hosaka as Ōno Harunaga • Shingo Hiramatsu as Oda Uraku • Teruhiko Saigō as Sanada Yukimura • Hiroshi Hatanaka as Kimura Shigenari • Takayuki Sugō as Konishi Yukinaga • Yoshisada Sakaguchi as Nakamura Kazu'uji ===Council of Five Elders=== • Kazuo Kitamura as Maeda Toshiie • Ken Utsui as Mōri Terumoto • Teruyuki Kagawa as Ukita Hideie • Tsunehiko Kamijō as Uesugi Kagekatsu ===Go-Bugyō=== • Tōru Emori as Ishida Mitsunari • Shinichiro Mikami as Asano Nagamasa • Kei Satō as Mashita Nagamori • Toshio Kurosawa as Natsuka Masaie • Hiroshi Kamiyama as Maeda Gen'i Ishida family • Masane Tsukayama as Ishida Masazumi • Taketoshi Naito as Ishida Masatsugu • Keiko Takahashi as Orin - wife of Mitsunari • Isao Natsuyagi as Shima Sakon Eastern Army • Ryō Tamura as Tōdō Takatora • Shinji Yamashita as Kuroda Nagamasa • Shunsuke Kariya as Katō Kiyomasa • Keizō Kanie as Fukushima Masanori • Satoru Saitō as Yamauchi Kazutoyo • Kei Suma as Date Masamune • Hatsunori Hasegawa as Maeda Toshinaga • Tsutomu Isobe as Ikeda Terumasa • Hideaki Tezuka as Tsuda Shigemoto • Hiroyuki Watanabe as Asano Yoshinaga • Shirō Saitō as Tanaka Yoshimasa • Taishi Horikoshi as Sanada Nobuyuki • Naoki Takemura as Miyamoto Musashi Western Army • Toshiyuki Hosokawa as Ōtani Yoshitsugu • Akaji Maro as Shimazu Yoshihiro • Yūichirō Yamaguchi as Shimazu Toyohisa • Kazuma Suzuki as Kobayakawa Hideaki • Ichirō Zaitsu as Ankokuji Ekei • Osami Nabe as Kikkawa Hiroie • Shinya Ōwada as Tachibana Muneshige Kyōgoku • Akira Onodera as Kyōgoku Takatsugu • Kuriko Namino as Jōkō-in Hosokawa • Isao Sasaki as Hosokawa Tadaoki • Kyōka Suzuki as Hosokawa Gracia • Shun Oguri as Hosokawa Tadatoshi Imperial House • Hiroyuki Kinoshita as Emperor Go-Yōzei • Yasumasa Ōba as Emperor Go-Mizunoo • Minori Terada as Nijō Akizane • Junpei Morita as Sanjōnishi Sane'eda • Noriko Ogawa as Sadako • Aki Maeda as young Sadako • Norihiro Inoue as Kajūji Mitsutoyo • Kazutoyo Yoshimi as Karasumaru Mitsuhiro Others • Nakamura Baijaku II as Tokugawa Mitsukuni, a.k.a. Mito Kōmon • Kazuyo Asari as Sassa Sukesaburō, a.k.a. Suke-san • Machiko Washio as Asaka Tanpaku, a.k.a. Kaku-san • Terence O'Brien as William Adams, a.k.a. Miura Anjin • Tim Knowles as Richard Cocks • Yatsuko Tan'ami as Kenshō-in, Takeda Shingen's daughter • Natsuko Migiwa as Maeda Matsu • Mikio Shimizu as Oda Nobukatsu • Noriko Shōji as a reporter (herself) • San'yūtei Rakutarō • Ryunosuke Kaneda as Tenkai • Hiroshi Ōkōchi as Konchiin Sūden ==Staff==

• Music : Taro Iwashiro • Historical research : Shinzaburō Ōishi • Architectural research : Kiyoshi Hirai • Clothing research : Kiyoko Koizumi • Sword fight arranger : Kunishirō Hayashi ==TV schedule==