People of Chiaraijima village Shibusawa family •
Ryo Yoshizawa as
Shibusawa Eiichi (also known as Eijirō, Eiichirō, Tokudayū, Tokutarō) • Masahito Kobayashi as young Eiichi •
Kaoru Kobayashi as Shibusawa Ichirōemon, Eiichi's father •
Emi Wakui as Shibusawa Ei, Eiichi's mother •
Eri Murakawa as Shibusawa Naka, Eiichi's older sister • Nanoha Oda as young Naka •
Ryōko Fujino as Shibusawa Tei, Eiichi's younger sister • Honoka Yoshida as young Tei •
Kengo Kora as Shibusawa Kisaku (later known as Shibusawa Seiichirō), Eiichi's cousin • Shūto Ishikawa as young Kisaku •
Riko Narumi as Shibusawa Yoshi, Kisaku's wife •
Sei Hiraizumi as Shibusawa Sōsuke, Eiichi's uncle •
Mayumi Asaka as Shibusawa Masa, Eiichi's aunt • Rina Ono as Shibusawa Uta, Eiichi's daughter • Chisato Yamasaki as young Uta • Sawa Nimura as Ōuchi Kuni • Yūki Izumisawa as Shibusawa Tokuji •
Show Kasamatsu as
Shibusawa Keizo • Kentarō Tamura as
Hozumi Nobushige • Kenta Uchino as Sakatani Yoshirō • Akana Ikeda as Shibusawa Kotoko •
Yuko Oshima as Itō Kaneko, Eiichi's second wife • Yūki Yagi as Shibusawa Fumiko
Odaka family •
Seiichi Tanabe as Odaka Junchū, Chiyo's older brother •
Shinnosuke Mitsushima as Odaka Chōshichirō • Kōsei Sutō as young Chōshichirō •
Ai Hashimoto as Odaka Chiyo, Eiichi's first wife • Aiko Iwasaki as young Chiyo •
Kenshi Okada as Odaka Heikurō (later known as Shibusawa Heikurō), Eiichi's cousin • Haru Takagi as young Heikurō • Satomi Tezuka as Odaka Yahe, Odaka family's mother • Mai Tezuka as Odaka Kise, Junchū's wife • Mei Hata as Odaka Yū, Junchū's daughter ===
Mito Domain=== •
Naoto Takenaka as
Tokugawa Nariaki, Yoshinobu's father and the 9th Lord of Mito • Hideko Hara as
Yoshiko, Yoshinobu's mother •
Ayumu Nakajima as Tokugawa Yoshiatsu, Nariaki's eldest son and the 10th Lord of Mito •
Rihito Itagaki as
Tokugawa Akitake, Yoshiatsu and Yoshinobu's half-brother • Ikkei Watanabe as
Fujita Tōko, Nariaki's confidant •
Kanji Tsuda as
Takeda Kōunsai, Nariaki's confidant • Kisetsu Fujiwara as Fujita Koshirō, Tōko's son ===
Hitotsubashi House=== •
Tsuyoshi Kusanagi as
Tokugawa Yoshinobu, the last
shogun • Motoi Kasamatsu as Shichirōmaro (young Yoshinobu) •
Shinichi Tsutsumi as Hiraoka Enshirō, Yoshinobu's confidant •
Yoshino Kimura as Hiraoka Yasu, Enshirō's wife •
Rie Mimura as Tokushin-in, Yoshinobu's grandmother •
Rina Kawaei as
Mika-gimi (Ichijō Mikako), Yoshinobu's wife • Toshiya Tōyama as Ikai Katsusaburō, Hitotsubashi House's side servant •
Kazuki Namioka as Kawamura Ejūrō, Enshirō's subordinate • Kimihiko Hasegawa as Nakane Chōjūrō • Minosuke as Kurokawa Kahei •
Hiroyuki Onoue as Hara Ichinoshin ===
Tokugawa shogunate===
Tokugawa family •
Yoshi Ikuzō as
Tokugawa Ieyoshi, the 12th shogun • Daichi Watanabe (Kuroneko Chelsea) as
Tokugawa Iesada, the 13th shogun •
Mone Kamishiraishi as
Tenshō-in Atsuhime, Iesada's wife • Rie Minemura as Utahashi, Iesada's nanny •
Hayato Isomura as
Tokugawa Iemochi, the 14th shogun •
Mai Fukagawa as
Princess Kazu, Iemochi's wife and Emperor Kōmei's younger half-sister ====
Rōjū==== • Gorō Kishitani as
Ii Naosuke, the
tairō •
Ryohei Otani as
Abe Masahiro, member of Shogun's Council of Elders •
Kenta Satoi as
Hotta Masayoshi, member of Shogun's Council of Elders • Hiroyuki Sase as
Kuze Hirochika • Ryūnosuke Karasawa as
Naitō Nobuchika •
Rikiya Koyama as
Sakai Tadashige • Takeshi Matsumura as
Mizuno Tadakiyo ====
Hatamoto==== •
Mitsuru Hirata as Kawaji Toshiakira, Chief Financial Official • Yasuhi Nakamura as
Nagai Naoyuki, Coastal Defense •
Satoru Kawaguchi as Iwase Tadanari ====
Shinsengumi==== •
Keita Machida as
Hijikata Toshizō Others •
Jun Shison as Sugiura Aizō • Mansaku Ikeuchi as Kurimoto Joun • Sō Yamanaka as Tanabe Taichi • Akira Okamori as Mukōyama Kazufumi •
Yoshihiko Hosoda as Dr. Takamatsu Ryōun •
Atsuhiro Inukai as
Fukuchi Gen'ichirō •
Shinji Takeda as
Oguri Kozukenosuke (Tadamasa) •
Miou Tanaka as Tanuma Okitaka • Hiroshi Yamamoto as Yamataka Nobuakira ===
Aizu and
Kuwana Domains=== • Seiichi Kohinata as
Matsudaira Katamori • Shunpei Kohinata as
Matsudaira Sadaaki ===
Fukui Domain=== •
Jun Kaname as
Matsudaira Yoshinaga, a.k.a. Matsudaira Shungaku, Fukui feudal lord •
Teppei Koike as
Hashimoto Sanai, Fukui feudal warrior ===
Satsuma Domain=== • Shin'ya Niiro as
Shimazu Nariakira, 28th Head of the Shimazu clan • Narushi Ikeda as
Shimazu Hisamitsu, Lord of Satsuma Domain and the guardian of Shigehisa •
Hanamaru Hakata as
Saigō Takamori •
Kanji Ishimaru as
Ōkubo Toshimichi, Hisamitsu's confidant •
Yu Tokui as Orita Yōzō •
Dean Fujioka as
Godai Tomoatsu • Ryūnosuke Matsumura as
Mishima Michitsune • Joe Hyūga as
Kawamura Sumiyoshi The imperial court • Onoe Ukon II as
Emperor Kōmei, 121st Emperor of Japan • Naoki Inukai as
Emperor Meiji, 122nd Emperor of Japan • Suzuri Shibasaki as Prince Sachi • Takaya Yamauchi as
Iwakura Tomomi • Yōhei Okuda as
Prince Kuni Asahiko •
Yuta Kanai as
Sanjō Sanetomi • Keiichirō Mori as
Nijō Nariyuki • Mizuki Tsujimoto as
Empress Eishō •
Ryōtarō Okiayu as Ōgimachisanjō Sanenaru •
Masami Horiuchi as
Nakayama Tadayasu Foreigners • Morley Robertson as
Matthew C. Perry, a commodore of the U.S. Navy • Blake Crawford as Henry A. Adams • Charles Glover as
Townsend Harris •
Kyle Card as
Ernest Mason Satow • Ian Moore as
Harry Parkes • Alexandre Sagar as
Alexander von Siebold • Greg Dale as Paul Flury-Hérard • Didier Carelock as
Léon Roches • Jeffrey Rowe as Charles de Montblanc • Julien Jaulin as
Napoleon III • Marie Moilliet as
Eugénie de Montijo • Nozomi de Lencquesaing as
Mermet de Cachon • Arno Le Gall as
Leopold II of Belgium • Massimo Biondi as Paul Brunat • Riccardo Balzarini as
Alexander Allan Shand • Frederic Benoliel as
Ulysses S. Grant • Michelle Take as
Julia Grant • Brent Olian as
Jesse Grant • Gaetano Totaro as
Theodore Roosevelt • Neil Garrison as
William Howard Taft • Dong Hao as
Sun Yat-sen • Ricky Anderson as
Frank A. Vanderlip • Jamie Schyy as
George Eastman • Don Johnson as
Lyman J. Gage The new government •
Ikusaburo Yamazaki as
Itō Hirobumi • Kōji Ōkura as
Ōkuma Shigenobu •
Aki Asakura as Ōkuma Ayako, Shigenobu's wife • Shūichirō Masuda as
Etō Shinpei • Masaki Miura as
Maejima Hisoka •
Wataru Takagi as Tamano Yofumi • Kaisei Kamimura as Akamatsu Noriyoshi •
Seiji Fukushi as
Inoue Kaoru • Reika Manaki as Inoue Takeko • Ren Komai as Inoue Sueko • Kazuaki Hankai as
Komura Jutarō • Reki Amada as
Katō Takaaki •
Kenjirō Ishimaru as
Hara Takashi •
Yoshimasa Kondo as
Shidehara Kijūrō • Yoshiyuki Ōmori as
Katō Tomosaburō • Masato Mitani as
Tokugawa Iesato • Tōsei Ishida as
Kaneko Kentarō • Kazunari Uryū as
Soeda Juichi ===
Mitsubishi Group=== • Nakamura Shikan VIII as
Iwasaki Yatarō •
Shugo Oshinari as
Iwasaki Yanosuke Others •
Kin'ya Kitaōji as
Tokugawa Ieyasu, the first shōgun of the Tokugawa shogunate, and the host of the series. •
Toru Watanabe as Umeda Shinnosuke, Armor dealer in Edo •
Hiroshi Tamaki as
Takashima Shūhan, Western-style gunner • Yoshi Sakō as Tone Yoshiharu, Okabe Domain magistrate • Shunya Itabashi as Sanada Hannosuke, swordsman • Ginnojō Yamazaki as Ōhashi Totsuan, Edo Confucian scholar •
Tetsu Watanabe as Kakubei • Tomori Abe as Suma • Shōdai Fukuyama as Kōno Kenzō • Masataka Matsubara as Inokichi • Hajime Yamazaki as Rōro Sakatani • Daikichi Sugawara as
Date Munenari, 8th Head of the
Uwajima Domain • Ryūshi Mizukami as
Yamauchi Yōdō, 15th Head of the
Tosa Domain • Takuo Inari as
Tokugawa Yoshikatsu, 14th Head of the
Owari Domain • Nakamura Mantarō as
Fukuzawa Yukichi •
Issey Ogata as Minomura Rizaemon • Junpei Yasui as
Masuda Takashi • Hisahiro Ogura as Ono Zen'emon • Katsumi Kiba as Ōkubo Ichiō •
Yōji Tanaka as Hagiwara Shirobei • Tadashi Ōtake as Hiraoka Junzō • Ryūji Kasahara as
Kijima Matabei • Kumi Kureshiro as Masuda Eiko • Takashi Okabe as
Ōkura Kihachirō •
Rio Kanno as Ōkura Tokuko • Kōki Osamura as Sasaki Yūnosuke • Kanda Hakuzan VI as Kanda Hakuzan II •
Jiro Okamoto as Kijūrō • Kōzō Haginoya as
Kodama Gentarō • Kazu Murakami as
Dr. Takaki • Hiro Ueno as Yasoda Meitarō • Yūichi Yasoda as
Kitasato Shibasaburō ==TV schedule==