# Taira no Kiyomori (TV series)

Taira no Kiyomori (平清盛) is a 2012 Japanese historical television series. It is the 51st NHK taiga drama.

## Production

Production Credits
* Original – Yuki Fujiumoto
* Music – Takashi Yoshimatsu
* Titling – Shōko Kanazawa
* Narrator – Masaki Okada
* Historical research – Masaaki Takahashi
* Sword fight arranger - Kunishirō Hayashi
* Architectural research – Sei Hirai
* Clothing research – Kiyoko Koizumi

## Cast
### Taira clan (Heike)

* Kenichi Matsuyama as Taira no Kiyomori, a military leader of the late Heian period of Japan
** Ōshirō Maeda as young Kiyomori
* Kiichi Nakai as Taira no Tadamori, the father of Taira no Kiyomori
* Atsuo Nakamura as Taira no Masamori
* Kōsuke Toyohara as Taira no Tadamasa
* Nakamura Baijaku II as Taira no Iesada
* Kyoko Fukada as Taira no Tokiko, Kiyomori's wife
* Ai Kato as Takashina no Akiko
* Takaya Kamikawa as Taira no Morikuni
* Go Morita as Taira no Tokitada
* Takahiro Fujimoto as Itō Tadakiyo
* Shunsuke Daito as Taira no Iemori
* Takahiro Nishijima as Taira no Yorimori
* Masataka Kubota as Taira no Shigemori
** Takuma Hiraoka as young Shigemori
* Hideo Ishiguro as Taira no Munemori
** Takuya Kusakawa as young Munemori
* Koji Kato as Usagimaru
* Mahiro Takasugi as Kousagimaru
* Emi Wakui as Ikenozenni
* Riko Narumi as "Kenshunmon-in" Shigeko
* Fumi Nikaido as Taira no Tokuko
* Tsuyoshi Muro as Taira no Tadanori

### Minamoto clan (Genji)

* Fumiyo Kohinata as Minamoto no Tameyoshi, a head of the Minamoto samurai clan
* Hiroshi Tamaki as Minamoto no Yoshitomo
* Rena Tanaka as Yura Gozen
* Emi Takei as Tokiwa Gozen
* Masaki Okada as Minamoto no Yoritomo, Yoshitomo's third son / Narrator
** Taishi Nakagawa as young Yoritomo
* Ryunosuke Kamiki as Minamoto no Yoshitsune, Yoshitomo's ninth son
** Ryunosuke Hashino as young Yoshitsune (a.k.a. Ushiwakamaru)
* Munetaka Aoki as Benkei
* Takashi Ukaji as Minamoto no Yorimasa
* Kenichi Endō as Hōjō Tokimasa
* Mayumi Tsukiyama as Maki no Kata
* Anne as Hōjō Masako
* Takuya Nakayama as Hōjō Yoshitoki
* Takashi Tsukamoto as Tōkurō
* Saki Fukuda as Yae, Yoritomo's first wife.

### Imperial family

* Shirō Itō as Emperor Shirakawa, the 72nd emperor of Japan
* Hiroshi Mikami as Emperor Toba, the 74th emperor of Japan
* Arata Iura as Emperor Sutoku, the 75th emperor of Japan
* Takumi Kitamura as Emperor Konoe, the 76th emperor of Japan
* Shota Matsuda as Emperor Go-Shirakawa, the 77th emperor of Japan
* Satoshi Tomiura as Emperor Nijō, the 78th emperor of Japan
* Yudai Chiba as Emperor Takakura, the 80th emperor of Japan
* Yūta Tanaka as Emperor Antoku, the 81st emperor of Japan

### Others

* Naohito Fujiki as Saigyō
* Seiko Matsuda as Gion no nyōgo
* Yasuko Matsuyuki as Bifukumon'in
* Rei Dan as Taikenmon'in, the consort of Emperor Toba
* Sadao Abe as Shinzei
* Koji Yamamoto as Fujiwara no Yorinaga
* Keisuke Horibe as Fujiwara no Tadamichi
* Jun Kunimura as Fujiwara no Tadazane
* Shigeki Hosokawa as Fujiwara no Motofusa
* Hisashi Yoshizawa　as Fujiwara no Narichika
* Toranosuke Kato as Saikō
* Toru Nomaguchi as Fujiwara no Korekata (episodes 25, 26, and 28)
** Toshihiro Yashiba as Fujiwara no Korekata (episode 19)
* Manabu Hamada as Kajiwara Kagetoki
* Kō Takasugi as Kazusa Hirotsune
* Toshiya Nagasawa as Takeda Nobuyoshi
* Ryūta Mine as Itō Sukechika
* Seiji Kinoshita as Ōba Kagechika
* Shun Sugata as Miura Yoshiaki
* Hajime Tanimoto as Miura Yoshizumi, Yoshiaki's son
* Kenzō as Sasaki Hideyoshi
* Moro Moro'oka as Doi Sanehira
* Masakazu Itō as Chiba Tsunetane
* Ryū Nakamura as Yamaki Kanetaka
* Muga Tsukaji as Fujiwara no Nobuyori
* Masaki Kyomoto as Fujiwara no Hidehira
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