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And so you are saying that you don't mind if women stand at the top as samurai generals?!

I have been at her side all this time, watching.

I think just like the former Iemitsu-ko...

...no, I think she is becoming an even more benevolent lord.

These are not normal times.

This is all in order to protect the reign of the Tokugawas.

Kasuga no Tsubone-sama?! Kasuga no Tsubone-sama!

Arikoto-sama.

Arikoto-sama!

Is it Masasuke?

It is the scarlet smallpox, Arikoto-sama.

For Sutezo... No, for Oraku-sama's sake, we employed another young man as his servant.

At first it was just the two of them.

And then it was Oraku-sama himself as well!

Oraku-sama?!

Masasuke. At any rate, take medicine to Oraku-sama and the servants...

...as well as to the other men in the Ooku.

In particular, immediately place Onatsu-sama and Otama-sama (Gyokuei) as far apart as possible!

Therefore, where do I bring them?

Here!

To the antechamber next to Kasuga no Tsubone-sama's room.

Eh?

Along with me, those three of us will sleep in the same room.

Arikoto-sama!

As there is a chance you may get it, you must not approach this room from here on, either.

Such meals as are necessary are to be brought here by the woman Yajima.

But... Arikoto-sama, you nursing them yourself is something the Shogun would never permit!

Tell the Shogun that I and the others have caught a serious cold.

I am a man who is unnecessary for this Ooku.

It would be of no inconvenience if I died from the scarlet smallpox, right?

Kasuga no Tsubone-sama.

May I have your permission?

I have no objections.

If this room with a dying old woman in it...

...can be of any use to you...

Is it true that you will be sleeping in Kasuga no Tsubone-sama's room?

What are you angry about, Gyokuei?

Nursing Kasuga...

This isn't like you at all, Arikoto-sama.

Moreover, Kasuga is...

...your bitterest enemy, isn't she?

In the first place, that Arikoto-sama would have anything to do with Kasuga at this time...

At this time...

This is completely different from the Arikoto-sama who was Temple Chief of the Keikoin Temple.

Gyokuei.

Upon nursing Kasuga no Tsubone-sama...

...I took a hard look at my own heart.

However...

One's own heart is a thing that cannot be understood.

What I can say is merely one thing...

For I, who have become a useless person here at the Ooku...

...to have someone I can be useful to...

Just that alone has brought a feeling of happiness to me.

As seen by you...

...I look to be a dull, good-natured person, do I not?

You are still Arikoto-sama.

You haven't changed at all since the old days.

I'll help you.

Yeah.

"Following Arikoto-sama's instructions..."

"...the patients were immediately taken to Kasuga no Tsubone-sama's room."

"However, the two younger ones who had developed it previously..."

"...died, in succession, over two days."

Arikoto-sama.

Arikoto-sama.

I have brought your lunch.

Yajima-dono. Do not be anxious. You cannot not be attacked by this.

No, it isn't that particularly...

Ah, it hurts...

- Please excuse me. - It hurts...

Ah, it hurts...

Mommy...

It hurts...

Oraku-dono, I have brought lunch.

The one who set this said they cut your food into small pieces to be easier to put in your mouth.

Now, Oraku-dono.

Oraku-dono.

At the very least, force yourself to take a mouthful of the rice porridge.

Now...

It's no use... I can't eat...

Now, now, Oraku-dono.

It would be best to take a short break.

I will return after a while.

Kasuga no Tsubone-sama, I have brought your lunch.

Kasuga no Tsubone-sama! You must not. When you get up like this...

Because I am someone who can take their meals alone.

Go ahead and give Oraku-dono his.

Kasuga no Tsubone-sama...

They are in season now...

...so should you not be bringing him persimmons?

If it were fruit, I think he might be willing to eat that.

So good...

Is it?

Of all I've eaten up till now...

...that was the most delicious.

Arikoto-sama.

Why...

...are you...

...taking such...

...good care of me?

Oraku-dono is the father of the Princess Chiyo.

So of course it is only natural to take good care of you, is it not?

But...

Arikoto-sama, I should be...

...your hated rival, shouldn't I?

So why?

Why would you be this kind to me?

Here, in this sick body...

No one...

No one...

...would even...

...look at me...

Oraku-dono.

Do not talk so much...

One last time...

...just once...

...I want to touch...

...Princess Chiyo's cheeks...

I fully understand, Oraku-dono.

I will give the order to Yajima right away.

For Princess Chiyo.

Arikoto-dono.

Arikoto-dono!

Please.

Please tell us if there is anything we can do to help.

- Please, for that person. - Arikoto-sama.

Because of those two boys who were lost to this disease...

...we are practiced at nursing.

First off, give us orders for the certain someone in there.

Den'emon-dono.

I am grateful for all your solicitude. But...

He has just breathed his last.

It was a splendid...

...final moment.

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I see. He's dead, huh?

He was thinking of Princess Chiyo until the very end.

As he was Chiyo's father...

...he deserves a courteous funeral.

Yes.

And? What about Kasuga?

How is Kasuga's condition coming along?

That is not very favorable.

She's still not taking her medicine?

Yes. There is that.

Arikoto-dono.

Please tell the Shogun nothing...

Anyhow, even though I have taken the medicine...

...I do not have...

...much longer.

I have broken...

...my vow not to take medicine.

What is there to tell her?

I have seen nothing.

Now, go back to sleep already.

My father...

My father...

...was called a rebel.

For being the chief vassal to...

...Akechi Mitsuhide-sama. (Akechi turned on his patron Oda Nobunaga and briefly took power afterwards)

The only memory I have...

...of my Father...

...is of his corpse, having been crucified.

We, as relatives of the rebels...

...to escape the pursuers sent after us by Hashibara Hideyoshi...

...became vagrants, wandering the mountains.

"We mustn't stay here any longer."

"Mother, my feet hurt."

"I do not want to walk anymore!"

"We've been wearing the same filthy things for how long now?"

"We might as well die of exhaustion at this rate..."

"Sisters, you mustn't cry."

"Crying will only make you much hungrier."

That was the sort of child I was.

I was not a child...

I was not adorable...

And that was how I was after I had grown., too..

I was told that by both my husband and father-in-law, too.

I, even now...

...may never be able to forget that time.

How hungry I was...

How hurt my feet were...

And how we escaped into those mountains.

Even now...

...I see it in my dreams...

We will continue this talk tomorrow.

Now, go to sleep.

How is Kasuga no Tsubone-sama?

I wonder if Kasuga will get better at this rate?

What is it, Otama?

You want to say something, don't you?

Ah, no.

It's rude, but this is surprising.

That you would worry this much about Kasuga no Tsubone-sama.

That's true, huh?

To say I adore her like a mother...

...would be a lie, wouldn't it?

It's just that... without Kasuga...

...Father wouldn't have been able to succeed as the head of the Tokugawa family...

...and you could say with certainty he may not have been put in the position of Shogun.

Don't misunderstand, Otama.

From the start in samurai families, it isn't necessarily the eldest son who will succeed.

The siblings would battle to compete for the position.

If Father hadn't become Shogun...

...what would have been waiting for him wasn't a life as a daimyo...

...but it would have been death.

It's true.

Father's younger brother, Tadanaga-ko, committed suicide.

Is that right...

Simply because Father lived...

...I was born as well.

I wonder what would have happened to the former me?

I don't think I would have wanted to be born into such a world.

In that case, are you happy to have been born now?

Who knows.

Even if I thought it was enjoyable to be alive now...

Thinking I was happy about it wouldn't be honest, now would it?

But, if...

If there is a meaning somewhere to my being born here...

...I'd want to verify it right away.

And if there was some role for me to accomplish...

...then I will want to achieve it.

That's what I think right now.

What is it?

Shogun.

Other than Arikoto-sama...

...I didn't think there were any other great people.

But... maybe I can...

...share a bed with an amazing woman such as you.

"In this year, as even those boys in the rural regions decreased..."

"...the sight of a young child had become rare."

Excuse me!

Lord!

Masanori-sama!

When was it that he died?

Late last night.

With this...

...the Inaba family is finished as well.

And after so much trouble since the death of the previous Lord.

And though Masanori-sama had just come into his inheritance as successor of the family.

No.

The Inaba family will be secure from here on.

But Masanori-sama has no male siblings.

And to try and adopt a male child in times like these...

I was thinking about that all last night.

There is only one way that will protect the Inaba clan.

It is what is being done at all the large daimyo houses.

Nono.

From here on, Nono will be a man.

She will live as Inaba Minokami Masanori.

We mustn't.

What would the country think?

Both my eldest and second son were taken by the scarlet smallpox.

Is it already too late?

This isn't about if we perish or if we don't perish.

Shogun!

Until the day when the last person dies...

...I think it is our duty to keep an eye on the future of this country.

It may be that everyone now is...

No, it is now. That's true, isn't it?!

Izunokami-sama.

We have thought long and hard and this is the one, certain path!

Masasuke.

Have you...

...been preparing...

...the notes of what happens...

...in the Ooku each day...

...to report to me?

Yes.

That journal...

...even after I am dead...

...continue it.

At this rate this country...

...will soon perish.

Until then...

...what will happen to...

...the Tokugawa family of this country...

...I want to see that with my own eyes...

...right to the moment of my death.

Yes.

The name of that journal...

I know...

...set it to be, "Death Journal."

Yes! I acknowledge this.

Without fail.

Without fail.

Arikoto-dono.

You...

...most certainly...

...bear a grudge against me, do you not?

Get some rest now.

No, only for this.

There is no doubt but you have a grudge against me.

It is true, is it not?

Because I was forced into the secular life after being a monk?

Not only that.

I tore a child away from its mother.

And parted you from the Shogun.

And not just you.

Quite a few people...

...cried because of me...

...and even sometimes lost their lives.

However...

...when the Shogun prospers...

...there are no wars.

When there are no wars...

...there is nothing for anyone to cry about...

...and the world is at peace.

All will be...

...peaceful.

It was for the sake...

...of no more wars...

Kasuga no Tsubone-sama.

I bear you no grudge.

On the contrary...

...I am grateful to you.

Of course at that time I did bear you a grudge.

I hated you from the bottom of my heart.

However, I came to know suffering.

I can now understand...

...the hearts of those people suffering from poverty and illness.

I grew closer to...

...my feelings of wanting to help them.

It may be...

I think this may have been the path I would have sought out for myself anyway.

It is this feeling...

...that I am grateful to Kasuga no Tsubone-sama for having.

You are saying...

...you are grateful to me?

Yes.

Arikoto-dono.

After...

...my death...

...I ask you...

...to take care of...

...the Shogun...

...and the Ooku.

It is you...

...who deserves it.

Please...

Please...

From the first...

...I accept.

This Arikoto...

...until this life ends...

...intend to serve the Ooku and the Shogun.

Now, Kasuga no Tsubone-sama.

I ask this favor of you.

"Listen well, Senkuma."

"I..."

"...intend to be wet-nurse to the family who will inherit the Shogunate."

"Senkuma - Masakatsu in his childhood"

"You are going alone to Edo?"

"I will be leaving you..."

"...as well as your still suckling younger brother, Yukuno."

"Do you think your mother is like a demon?"

"Mother, I will also go to Edo."

"Senkuma."

"If the child that is born is an heir..."

"...then I will become an attendant to that heir!"

"If I do that, could I not help out Mother even a little?"

Senkuma...

Yes...

It is Senkuma, Mother.

Masakatsu...

What are you doing...

...at such a place?

The scarlet smallpox...

...is desolating the rural villages...

...and Edo as well, is it not?

Hurry...

...and call for...

...the Rokuninshu to come.

Yes.

Kasuga.

Don't worry about that. Don't speak anymore.

Shogun.

The time...

...has come.

The time for...

...our parting.

No. I won't permit it.

You must always be at my side.

Please...

...let me go like this.

Kasuga...

Kasuga!

Kasuga, Kasuga!

Wake up!

Kasuga, Kasuga...

Kasuga!

"And then, finally..."

"...while being watched over by Iemitsu-ko and Inaba Masakatsu-sama..."

"...Kasuga no Tsubone-sama closed her life at the age of 65."

Kasuga... Kasuga...

Mirai to kako kara ima wo terashidasu Now illuminating both future and past

Anata dake mitsumeteru Staring at you alone

Kono sekai ga ima nanika wo sakende mo Even if this world is screaming out for something

"If indeed..."

"...I do become wet-nurse to the Shogunate family..."

"Even if we are in the same Edo Castle..."

"...you will no longer be able..."

"...to call me 'Mother.'"

"Yes."

"Even so..."

"...I wish to follow you, Mother."

"Senkuma."

"Mother."

"Senkuma."

"Senkuma."

"Mother."

"Senkuma."

Kono sekai de subete wo kanjite itai I want to feel everything in this world

Tada hitotsu dake daiji na mono dakishimete Embracing you is the one and only important thing to me

NEVER MAKE ME CRY AGAIN

Kono sekai de ima anata wo shinjiteru What I believe now in this world is you

Murase Masasuke.

I have named your duties as Go-yuhitsu.

"Go-yuhitsu" (Private Secretary)

From here forward, you will be given all Ooku documents that need to be written.

At your pleasure.

And then, for Katsuda Yorihide-dono...

...you will purchase all the various daily necessities for this Ooku and then manage them.

I will name this duty as Omotetsuka.

Yes.

To Nishina Kiyonari-dono...

...in your station at the border between the Ooku and the State Chambers...

...I will have you keep watch on the lock.

This duty will be named, Ojoguchi.

Yes!

With this...

...all those who serve in this vast Ooku will be granted duties.

From now on, all of us, according to our duties...

...will together serve the Shogun here in this Ooku.

Yes!

To you!

Raise your head.

Today...

...the Shogun has words to give to all of you.

Listen to them carefully.

The Shogun... comes!

Listen well.

My Father, third generation Shogun Iemitsu...

...passed away 10 years ago!

I, to support the world of the Tokugawa...

...have changed my name to my Father's.

I am temporarily borrowing the name of Shogun.

This is strictly to be...

...until the day when the population of men has increased.

It is a provisional measure until a male successor can take over the family.

Thusly...

...I have decided to give myself my Father's name, the third-generation Iemitsu.

Ostensibly, you have nothing to worry about.

With the excellent aid of the Shogunate Cabinet Officials...

...the government will move forward in good health.

I was born to connect this world of the Tokugawas to eternity...

...as the human sacrifice called Shogun!

In the unlikely event that boys continue to decline...

...or if this world itself dies out...

...I, too, will perish along with it.

Does anyone...

...have any objection to my becoming a woman Shogun?!

"Not one person raised their voice."

"The first woman Shogun since the dawn of history."

"This was the birth of Tokugawa Iemitsu."

"This Drama is Fictional"