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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 have temporarily borrowed the name of Shogun.

This is strictly to be...

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

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

I have decided...

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

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

...as the human sacrifice called Shogun!

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."

"It was also a memorable day for the Shogunate government said it would recognize..."

"...women's names as successors to the daimyo."

"As a consequence, families who had no standing male heir for succession..."

"...would not go extinct."

"There were also measures to check the flood of unemployed ronin coming into the city."

Oi! Have you heard what's being said of the Shogun?

"It was that day when word of the birth of a woman Shogun..."

"...was handed down to those of the Ooku."

"To everyone of the Ooku..."

"...that fact was something that could be called world-shattering."

Please excuse me, Masukatsu-dono.

Arikoto-dono.

The Shogun, in a loud voice...

...declared her standing as a woman Shogun.

I understand.

Of course, not a soul offered an objection.

With this, my duties are over...

...is what you are saying, is it not?

"However..."

"...the one who's life changed more drastically than anyone else's..."

"...must have been Iemitsu herself, now that she had been made public."

It is time for you to awaken.

"With her existence no longer hidden in the shadows..."

"...Iemitsu-ko had government affairs to deal with outside of the Ooku."

"Up until now, the hooded Inaba Masakatsu-sama..."

"...had been doing this for over the length of a decade."

Please excuse me.

Den'emon-dono.

Having come into possession of some first-class Fushimi sake...

...I thought we could share it.

Are those the clothes you had from the dead Iemitsu?

That's right.

Since I will no longer be putting them on, I thought I would return them.

It is presumptuous of me to say this.

Thank you for your long, hard work.

Now...

This is a delicious sake.

That it is.

Shall we drink the night away?

About her...

I frequently recall that time.

That time?

The look in her eyes... as she was being carried off.

"You will become the sacrifice for your father."

In hindsight...

...it's a wonder that we were able to pull it off.

My mother...

It could only be Kasuga no Tsubone-sama...

...who would have done such a physical labor.

Furthermore, she concealed Iemitsu-ko's death...

...and used her own son as a Kagemusha. (a shadow leader, manipulated by others)

Let us hurry and take turns getting drunk tonight.

Masakatsu-sama.

I have a message for you from Arikoto-sama.

"Please, keep watching over..."

"...the Shogun from here forward."

That is to say...

..."Do not die," is it not?

"Arikoto-dono."

"I ask you... to take care of..."

"...the Shogun and Ooku..."

"If it is you..."

"...then you deserve it."

"Shogun. The time..."

"...has come."

"The time for..."

"...our parting."

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Episode 9: "Your Body and Soul are Mine"

To you!

"Nenshionreinogi" (First of the Year Courtesies)

Matsudaira Kainokami Terutsuna...

...expresses her congratulations to you on this New Year's Day.

Sakai Bingokami Tadatomo...

...expresses her congratulations to you on this New Year's Day.

How auspicious.

What is the matter, Father?

Huh? Ah, well...

You have been thinking about how much better I looked as a man, are you not?

Huh? No, no...

That is fine. I think so as well.

Everyone thinks so, as well.

Happy New Year.

"Inaba Minokami Masanori (Nono)"

I am Inaba Minokami Masanori.

Oh!

You are Masakatsu-dono's daughter.

You've become splendid.

Yes.

I had heard you succeeded to your family in place of your older brother.

Yes.

Masakatsu-dono must surely as well...

No...

The dead Masakatsu-dono must surely be thrilled from his place in the grave as well.

Father.

To bring up being in the grave on New Year's...

Oh...

Thank you very much for your hard work.

Did you receive any words from the Shogun?

No, Mother.

Was there any mention about your Father?

Matsudaira Izunokami Nobutsuna-sama...

...did say that my dead Father would be pleased with me.

That again.

Now that the Shogun is a woman...

...it should be clear to anyone's eyes that Masakatsu-sama was Iemitsu-ko's Kagemusha.

Masakatsu-sama...

...should still be there somewhere in the castle.

I am sure that you and he will meet someday.

But, Mother...

I have no memory of Father's face.

As long as he does not announce his name to me, I will not know Father.

Mother.

You should forget about Father already.

You!

Father was coerced into this...

...by Grandmother Kasuga no Tsubone-sama.

He did not choose this path.

But to curry favor with the Tokugawa clan...

...did he not happily act as the Shogun's shadow?

Very well.

If you, the present head of the family, so think so then...

However, I...

...regret having parted from him...

...in the way that I did.

That morning...

...there was a trifling thing.

I had put your Father into a bad mood.

It was a thing for which I should have apologized for honestly.

That was...

...to be our eternal farewell.

If...

If he...

...had only confessed to me...

...that he was going off to become the Shogun's shadow for the sake of the Tokugawa clan...

...I would not have asked him to stop.

"Please, get going," I would have said.

And then...

...parted from him with a smile...

We still have a long ways to go towards clamping down on the farmers lives.

It is forbidden to eat rice across consecutive days.

Yes!

"What the Shogun Iemitsu-ko embarked upon next..."

"...was, so to speak, to reduce the number of mouths to be fed among the staff of the Ooku."

A list of 100 names of those with nothing to do?

I will leave the choice of which staff to include up to you.

Let's see...

They should be those young as possible...

...and those weak in the martial arts.

And those people within the Ooku without any skills at their work as well.

In those cases, it's fine not to pay them.

Yes.

Well then, if there is sufficient money for those with nothing to do...

There's not!

The Shogunate doesn't have any extra money right now.

Then they should be returned to their villages without giving them anything?

No.

Those 100 men will be given a new duty.

A very, very important duty.

Previously...

...I and Den'emon would go out on inspections of the city of Edo.

"Outta the way, outta the way!"

Due to the outbreak of scarlet smallpox...

...young men have disappeared from all over the town.

Even if a woman wants a child, they lack partners.

For those families with young sons...

...I couldn't believe the high prices that they were selling their son's bodies to women for.

However...

...in the dependent city of Yoshiwara...

...there wasn't a single healthy young man around.

Without women able to give birth to children...

...our country will decline before long...

...and be destroyed.

"Iemitsu-ko presented to those skilled men of the Ooku a stipend..."

"...and put them to use as watchdogs."

"At a price much lower than the going market price..."

"...she offered healthy male bodies to Yoshiwara."

"And, one other thing..."

From this point forward, if a woman Shogun holds this position again...

...that woman Shogun and her promised first man...

...must be a choice made from the Ooku.

And that man must certainly...

...be secretly put to death afterwards.

Put to death?

Isn't it obvious?

That man will have inured the Shogun's body.

It cannot be permitted for someone to be above the Shogun for even an instant.

In addition to protecting the Shogun...

...this should also serve to protect the prestige of the Tokugawa.

As you command.

Well then, that person...

...shall be called, "Gonaishonokata." ("the honorable secret person")

You...

...have changed, haven't you?

"Oi! Oman!"

"Does the name Arikoto..."

"...disagree with you that much?"

"Please stop, Shogun."

Move."

"No."

"I will not move."

"If you feel you are the only one who is in pain..."

"...then you are greatly mistaken!"

You're just the same as the Rokuninshu.

Can't you scold me as Shogun anymore?

All of you say, "At your will."

Or answer with, "At your command."

Arikoto.

Being a Shogun is a boring thing.

That is...

Is it not because there is no need to disagree with you?

Everyone of the Rokuninshu, as well...

...have acknowledged your superiority.

More so now...

...than under the bated breath of Kasuga-dono's Ooku...

...is it not better to live your entire life this way?

It's not that.

It's not that...

Still...

I have this feeling of having lost something.

"Something"?

A part of me that was irreplaceable...

You don't understand?

It's you.

Even when you had left my side...

...I would think of Arikoto.

Back when I thought that we could die together at any time.

When I was a person who was alive here in the Ooku...

...just to...

...give birth to a child.

But now...

...I am the revered Shogun.

I must live without any support for my heart.

I'm alone...

All alone...

Shogun.

Forget what I said just now.

I was merely complaining.

It wasn't true.

Shogun.

I will say just one thing.

While your position has indeed changed...

I...

My heart...

...has not changed since that time.

Truly?

Arikoto.

Arikoto-dono, excuse me.

Masakatsu-dono.

Please wait a moment.

It has been awhile, Masakatsu-dono.

Arikoto-dono.

The Shogun has commanded that Arikoto-dono keep vigil with her this night.

Please excuse me.

I am very sorry, Arikoto-dono.

Truth is, the Shogun's health is not well.

Tonight's vigil is...

I understand, Masakatsu-dono.

Please tell her sincerely to take good care of herself.

I will tell her.

What is it, Masakatsu-dono?

Yes.

At any rate...

...there is something you should know.

According to the doctor...

...she is probably pregnant.

"Since Iemitsu-ko's oldest child, the Princess Chiyo, it had been 3 years."

"The long-expected conception between her and Onatsu-sama had come."

"Suffering from morning sickness and after a difficult birth..."

"...she gave birth to a Princess six months later."

Congratulations upon the birth of the Princess.

- Congratulations. - Congratulations.

- Congratulations! - Congratulations.

Onatsu-sama...

...truly congratulations at this time.

How courteous of you, Arikoto-sama.

After becoming the woman Shogun, it has been difficult for her.

Because she has been saying that her successor must be a male child.

That is correct.

Well then...

...please let Otama-sama give it a try.

That Onatsu...

He's acting entirely as if he were the father of a Shogun!

To him it feels like it was a good thing that Princess Chiyo's father, Oraku-sama, died...

...and he ignores the Princess Chiyo who was born before his!

That is not true, now is it?

No, Onatsu is that sort of guy.

Someone needs to explain to Onatsu the order of precedence.

By the way, I wonder how the condition of the Shogun's health is?

After giving birth, I heard she was completely back to normal.

There is nothing more important than that.

Arikoto-sama.

What is it? You are so formal.

I'm...

I'm truly sorry for saying such a cowardly thing!

When the Shogun and I were together...

...she spoke of wanting to have a child with Arikoto-sama.

As of yet nobody had been next to her...

...except me...

Then that Onatsu fellow got ahead of me at last.

No.

That was not your fault.

From the start, it was I who selfishly spoke my thoughts.

This time...

You should be the one who makes the next child with the Shogun.

Please wait...

Please wait just a little longer.

Arikoto-sama...

Don't tell me you are going to say you don't desire such a thing anymore?

It is not that...

But having seen the suffering of the Shogun this time around...

Were you here?

The Shogun has commanded that Arikoto-dono keep vigil with her this night.

Arikoto.

Arikoto...

At last...

At last!

It has been so long.

I have dreamed of this day for so long...

I won't let anyone get in our way anymore.

I'll also have the concubines give birth to an heir.

There isn't anyone who will complain about what I do anymore.

That's right, isn't it, Arikoto?

Arikoto...

I won't be separated from you anymore.

We'll never be separated!

Arikoto?

Arikoto?

Shogun.

Please...

Please grant me this favor.

Please...

...do not bring me to your bed.

And please allow me...

...to decline coming to your bed in the future.

I see.

My body is so dirty after being with so many men, you don't want to touch it anymore...

That is wrong.

It is not that.

Not that...

No...

This is what I have dreamed of for so long...

What sorts of feelings...

...have I gone through until now...

...having to just watch you?

However...

I am scared.

Scared?

That I will have to live with...

...those things that cannot be changed in your heart.

What a fool thing...

Don't you believe in me?

You don't trust in me?

Hey, Arikoto?

Say, please Arikoto.

Don't make me sad.

I can say the one who can make me feel like this...

...is only you in this world.

My heart is...

...yours alone.

That won't change, whoever's child I give birth to.

Just because you can't give me an heir...

Yes.

Just as you say...

...I could not form a child with you.

What is it you're trying to say?

Therefore, you should...

...place some other man to be the next one for you from here on.

However...

However, I am a man, too!

Not just your heart...

I cannot endure not being able to make your body mine and mine alone as well!

I wanted to give you a child.

But I...

...I cannot do that for you...

Please.

Please...

Please set me free.

Please...

...set me free from...

...such a terrible karma...

...between a man and a woman...

I see...

I see...

Very well.

Arikoto.

You and I both...

...have come a long ways, haven't we...

Shogun!

Shogun!

Masakatsu.

I am all alone.

There is no one who will scold me anymore.

There is no one who will cuddle and comfort me anymore, either.

That is how it is to be Shogun, huh...

Masakatsu.

You have a painful situation as well, don't you?

Shogun.

It is all destined.

Destined...

When you were born...

...you were a vessel that would become Shogun.

What happened to you was inevitable.

And thus I became a woman Shogun.

Aren't your duties over with?

This is a life that should have died at the time your Father passed away.

Your eldest son...

Was Masanori's death also destined?

It was destined.

I won't permit you to die, Masakatsu.

You will enter the priesthood and become a priest.

The same as for Father who collapsed from the scarlet smallpox...

...you can pray for Masanori.

You have been informed that this is your destiny.

The Shogun comes!

Today...

All of you will no longer gather together in this way.

Since Kasuga no Tsubone has died...

...the position of having total control over the Ooku has become vacant.

At this time...

...I have decided to establish this duty once again.

Total control over the Ooku...

Who it is who will be at the top of the Ooku, managing all the men of the Ooku.

The one who can do anything within the Ooku.

The one with total control that you must ask instructions from.

That guy...

If he demands total control of the Ooku...

What would...

This position...

...has been granted to Madenokouji Arikoto!

In full command of the Ooku...

...I am Madenokouji Arikoto.

All of you, once more...

...I will be counting on you.

"The second person in history with total control of the Ooku."

Yes!

"This was the birth of Oman."

"This Drama is Fictional"