# Tokugawa Ieyasu (TV series)

Tokugawa Ieyasu (徳川 家康) 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 work is set during the Sengoku period going into the early Edo period.
The story chronicles the life of Tokugawa Ieyasu from before his birth until his death.

## Production

Production Credits
* Original – Sōhachi Yamaoka
* Music – Isao Tomita
* Narrator – Naomitsu Tateno
* Historical research – Keizō Suzuki
* Sword fight arranger - Kunishirō Hayashi

## Casting
### Ieyasu

Generally, due to the image of Tokugawa Ieyasu being petite and chubby, casting proved to be challenging. Before long, within the production team, the desire to create a new image of Ieyasu grew stronger, and the tall Sakae Takita was chosen for the role.

### Hideyoshi

Due to the strong desire of Mieko Osanai, who is also a scriptwriter for Kinpachi-sensei, Tetsuya Takeda played the role of Hideyoshi. He was mentioned as one of the leading candidates for the role of Hideyoshi in the 1981 NHK Taiga drama Onna Taikōki as well.

### Nobunaga

Initially, the role of Nobunaga was offered to popular singer and actor Kenji Sawada. However, he was too busy, and scheduling proved to be difficult. Eventually, just one week before the casting announcement, it was decided that he was unable to participate. NHK gave up on casting a big-name actor and instead, at the time still relatively unknown, chose Koji Yakusho for the role. From there, he quickly rose to fame and became a popular actor.

## Cast
### Starring role

* Sakae Takita as Tokugawa Ieyasu (episodes 7-50)
** Yoshitaka Kase as child Ieyasu (episodes 3-5)
** Yōji Matsuda as teen Ieyasu (episode 6)

### Tokugawa clan

* Shinobu Otake as Odai no Kata - Ieyasu's mother
* Masaomi Kondō as Matsudaira Hirotada - Ieyasu's father
* Kaoru Yachigusa as Keyōin - Ieyasu's grandmother
* Kimiko Ikegami as Lady Tsukiyama - Ieyasu's wife
* Hiroshi Katsuno as Tokugawa Hidetada - Ieyasu's third son
* Hiroyuki Nagato as Honda Sakuzaemon
* Shinjirō Ehara as Ishikawa Kazumasa
* Taketoshi Naito as Honda Masanobu
* Yosuke Natsuki as Yagyū Munenori
* Hirotarō Honda as Honda Masazumi
* Sen Yamamoto as Itakura Katsushige
* Seiji Miyaguchi as Torii Tadayoshi
* Sei Hiraizumi as Ii Naomasa
* Kōsuke Toyohara as Ii Naomasa (young)
* Katsumasa Uchida as Sakakibara Yasumasa
* Masuyo Iwamoto as Asahi-hime - Ieyasu's second wife
* Keiko Takeshita as Lady Saigō - Ieyasu's concubine
* Ken Tanaka as Matsudaira Tadateru - Ieyasu's sixth son
* Masahiko Tsugawa as Ōkubo Nagayasu
* Junkichi Orimoto as Ōkubo Tadayo
* Hideyuki Hori as Yūki Hideyasu - Ieyasu's second son
* Jouji Nakata as Ōkubo Tadakazu

### Oda clan

* Kōji Yakusho as Oda Nobunaga
* Takao Itō as Oda Nobuhide
* Mariko Fuji as Nōhime
* Minori Terada as Akechi Mitsuhide
* Rokko Toura as Hirate Masahide

### Toyotomi clan

* Tetsuya Takeda as Toyotomi Hideyoshi
* Kazuko Yoshiyuki as Nene - Hideyoshi's wife
* Mitsue Suzuki as Ōmandokoro - Hideyoshi's mother
* Masako Natsume as Yodo-dono - Hideyoshi's concubine
* Gō Rijū as Toyotomi Hideyori - Hideyoshi's son
* Mariko Ishihara as Senhime - Hideyori's wife
* Takeshi Kaga as Ishida Mitsunari
* Yūsuke Kawazu as Shima Sakon
* Akira Kume as Katagiri Katsumoto
* Yasunori Irikawa as Kuroda Kanbei
* Junpei Morita as Asano Yoshinaga

#### Council of Five Elders

* Tetsurō Sagawa as Maeda Toshiie
* Shinsuke Mikimoto as Mōri Terumoto
* Tōru Yokoi as Uesugi Kagekatsu
* Mitsuo Hamada as Ukita Hideie

### Imagawa clan

* Mikio Narita as Imagawa Yoshimoto
* Yoichi Hayashi as Imagawa Ujizane
* Keiju Kobayashi as Sessai Choro, Ieyasu's master

### Takeda clan

* Kei Satō as Takeda Shingen
* Shinji Tōdō as Takeda Katsuyori
* Shōbun Inoue as Yamagata Masakage
* Takeo Namai as Anayama Nobukimi

### Others

* Gō Wakabayashi as Sanada Yukimura
* Goro Ibuki as Katō Kiyomasa
* Katsuhiko Watabiki as Fukushima Masanori
* Hiroshi Arikawa as Ōtani Yoshitsugu
* Jun Tazaki as Shimazu Yoshihiro
* Onoe Tatsunosuke I as Date Masamune
* Kōji Ishizaka as Naya Shōan (fictional character)
* Misako Konno as Kinomi (fictional character)
* Gorō Mutsumi as Naoe Kanetsugu
* Masami Horiuchi as Kobayakawa Hideaki
* Yūsuke Takita as Ankokuji Ekei
* Raita Ryū as Tenkai
* Jin Nakayama as Chaya Shirōjirō Kiyonobu
* Daisaku Shinohara as Ashikaga Yoshiaki, the final shōgun of the Ashikaga shogunate

## TV schedule

| Episode | Original airdate | Title | Directed by | Rating |
| 1 | January 9, 1983 (1983-01-09) | "Takechiyo Tanjō" (竹千代誕生) | Makoto Ōhara | 34.9% |
| 2 | January 16, 1983 (1983-01-16) | "Ribetsu" (離別) | Ikuo Katō | 35.2% |
| 3 | January 23, 1983 (1983-01-23) | "Hitojichi Ryakudatsu" (人質略奪) | Maorimasa Matsumoto | 33.0% |
| 4 | January 30, 1983 (1983-01-30) | "Ninjū Mugen" (忍従無限) | Makoto Ōhara | 37.4% |
| 5 | February 6, 1983 (1983-02-06) | "Hitojichi Kōkan" (人質交換) | Ikuo Katō | 36.0% |
| 6 | February 13, 1983 (1983-02-13) | "Shiren no Toki" (試練の時) | Maorimasa Matsumoto | 35.5% |
| 7 | February 20, 1983 (1983-02-20) | "Uijin" (初陣) | Makoto Ōhara | 36.2% |
| 8 | February 27, 1983 (1983-02-27) | "Okehazama" (桶狭間) | Ikuo Katō | 35.9% |
| 9 | March 6, 1983 (1983-03-06) | "Okazaki Nyūjō" (岡崎入城) | Maorimasa Matsumoto | 33.0% |
| 10 | March 13, 1983 (1983-03-13) | "Mikawa Ikkō-ikki" (三河一向一揆) | Makoto Ōhara | 34.5% |
| 11 | March 20, 1983 (1983-03-20) | "Kōbō no Shiro" (興亡の城) | Masahide Kanetoshi | 29.9% |
| 12 | March 27, 1983 (1983-03-27) | "Jinsei no Kiro" (人生の岐路) | Ikuo Katō | 36.1% |
| 13 | April 3, 1983 (1983-04-03) | "Mikatagahara Kassen" (三方ヶ原合戦) | Makoto Ōhara | 28.0% |
| 14 | April 10, 1983 (1983-04-10) | "Chichi to Ko" (父と子) | Maorimasa Matsumoto | 30.2% |
| 15 | April 17, 1983 (1983-04-17) | "Inbō" (陰謀) | Masahide Kanetoshi | 27.3% |
| 16 | April 24, 1983 (1983-04-24) | "Mujō no Kaze" (無情の風) | Ikuo Katō | 33.3% |
| 17 | May 1, 1983 (1983-05-01) | "Muketsu no Shōri" (無血の勝利) | Kazutaka Kunihiro | 27.8% |
| 18 | May 8, 1983 (1983-05-08) | "Muhon Hakkaku" (謀叛発覚) | Makoto Ōhara | 33.2% |
| 19 | May 15, 1983 (1983-05-15) | "Nagashino no Tatakai" (長篠の戦) | Maorimasa Matsumoto | 34.7% |
| 20 | May 22, 1983 (1983-05-22) | "Nandai" (難題) | Masahide Kanetoshi | 32.4% |
| 21 | May 29, 1983 (1983-05-29) | "Nobuyasu Tsuihō" (信康追放) | Ikuo Katō | 29.2% |
| 22 | June 5, 1983 (1983-06-05) | "Rakka Ujō" (落花有情) | Maorimasa Matsumoto | 27.5% |
| 23 | June 12, 1983 (1983-06-12) | "Azuchi eno Michi" (安土への道) | Masahide Kanetoshi | 35.0% |
| 24 | June 19, 1983 (1983-06-19) | "Honnō-ji no Hen" (本能寺の変) | Makoto Ōhara | 31.4% |
| 25 | June 26, 1983 (1983-06-26) | "Iga-goe" (伊賀越え) | Makoto Ōhara | 35.1% |
| 26 | July 3, 1983 (1983-07-03) | "Tsugi ni Fuku Kaze" (次に吹く風) | Ikuo Katō | 36.9% |
| 27 | July 10, 1983 (1983-07-10) | "Komaki Nagakute no Tatakai" (小牧長久手の戦) | Maorimasa Matsumoto | 28.9% |
| 28 | July 17, 1983 (1983-07-17) | "Kazumasa Shuppon" (数正出奔) | Kazutaka Kunihiro | 27.7% |
| 29 | July 24, 1983 (1983-07-24) | "Mikawa no Iji" (三河の意地) | Ikuo Katō | 30.6% |
| 30 | July 31, 1983 (1983-07-31) | "Ryōyū Taimen" (両雄対面) | Makoto Ōhara | 27.1% |
| 31 | August 7, 1983 (1983-08-07) | "Tsuma naranu Haha" (妻ならぬ母) | Masahide Kanetoshi | 24.4% |
| 32 | August 14, 1983 (1983-08-14) | "Ieyasu Edo-iri" (家康江戸入り) | Kazutaka Kunihiro | 24.5% |
| 33 | August 21, 1983 (1983-08-21) | "Sen'un Ugoku" (戦雲動く) | Maorimasa Matsumoto | 23.5% |
| 34 | August 28, 1983 (1983-08-28) | "Kachū no Hito" (渦中の人) | Ikuo Katō | 29.1% |
| 35 | September 4, 1983 (1983-09-04) | "Taikō Shisu" (太閤死す) | Makoto Ōhara | 28.4% |
| 36 | September 11, 1983 (1983-09-11) | "Bunretsu no Me" (分裂の芽) | Maorimasa Matsumoto | 29.6% |
| 37 | September 18, 1983 (1983-09-18) | "Kyū-chō Mō-chō" (窮鳥猛鳥) | Kōsaku Takahashi | 29.8% |
| 38 | September 25, 1983 (1983-09-25) | "Ki wa Jukusu" (機は熟す) | Ikuo Katō | 31.3% |
| 39 | October 2, 1983 (1983-10-02) | "Sekigahara Zen'ya" (関ヶ原前夜) | Makoto Ōhara | 27.7% |
| 40 | October 9, 1983 (1983-10-09) | "Sekigahara" (関ヶ原) | Makoto Ōhara | 29.2% |
| 41 | October 16, 1983 (1983-10-16) | "Shōgun Ieyasu" (将軍家康) | Ikuo Katō | 31.3% |
| 42 | October 23, 1983 (1983-10-23) | "Sekai no Kaze" (世界の風) | Maorimasa Matsumoto | 28.8% |
| 43 | October 30, 1983 (1983-10-30) | "Renpan-jō no Yume" (連判状の夢) | Makoto Ōhara | 30.1% |
| 44 | November 6, 1983 (1983-11-06) | "Sōdō no Ne" (騒動の根) | Ikuo Katō | 29.6% |
| 45 | November 13, 1983 (1983-11-13) | "Kyojō no Yobigoe" (巨城の呼び声) | Maorimasa Matsumoto | 30.3% |
| 46 | November 20, 1983 (1983-11-20) | "Oi no Ketsudan" (老いの決断) | Ikuo Katō | 30.2% |
| 47 | November 27, 1983 (1983-11-27) | "Osaka Fuyu no Jin" (大坂 冬の陣) | Makoto Ōhara | 30.6% |
| 48 | December 4, 1983 (1983-12-04) | "Osaka Natsu no Jin" (大坂 夏の陣) | Maorimasa Matsumoto | 29.5% |
| 49 | December 11, 1983 (1983-12-11) | "Rakujō" (落城) | Ikuo Katō | 31.3% |
| 50 | December 18, 1983 (1983-12-18) | "Taihei eno Inori" (泰平への祈り) | Makoto Ōhara | 33.1% |
| Average rating 31.2% - Rating is based on Japanese Video Research (Kantō region). |||||