is a 1979 Japanese television series. It is the 17th
NHK taiga drama.
Story
Kusa Moeru deals with the
Kamakura period
The is a period of Japanese history that marks the governance by the Kamakura shogunate, officially established in 1192 in Kamakura by the first '' shōgun'' Minamoto no Yoritomo after the conclusion of the Genpei War, which saw the struggle bet ...
. Based on
Michiko Nagai's novels "Hojo Masako" and "Enkan".
The story chronicles the life of
Hōjō Masako.
Cast
Minamoto no Yoritomo's family
*
Kōji Ishizaka as
Minamoto no Yoritomo
was the founder and the first shogun of the Kamakura shogunate of Japan, ruling from 1192 until 1199.Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric. (2005). "Minamoto no Yoriie" in . He was the husband of Hōjō Masako who acted as regent ('' shikken'') after h ...
, the first shōgun of the Kamakura shogunate
**
Yōji Matsuda as young Yoritomo
*
Shima Iwashita as
Hōjō Masako
*
Tomiyuki Kunihiro as
Minamoto no Yoshitsune
*
Hiromi Go as
Minamoto no Yoriie, the second shōgun
**
Shingo Tsurumi as young Yoriie
*
Saburō Shinoda as
Minamoto no Sanetomo, the third shōgun
**
Taiki Matsuno as young Sanetomo
*
Kimiko Ikegami as Ōhime
Minamoto no Yoritomo's vassels
*
Shinjirō Ehara as
Kajiwara Kagetoki
*
Tetsuya Takeda as
Adachi Morinaga
*
Shōhei Hino as
Adachi Kagemori
*
Kei Sato as
Hiki Yoshikazu
*
Hiroshi Fujioka as Miura Yoshimura
*Toshio Shiba as Miura Taneyoshi
*
Masaki Kyomoto as Komawaka-maru (later known as Miura Mitsumura)
*
Shin Kishida as
Ōe no Hiromoto
*
Kohji Moritsugu as
Hatakeyama Shigetada
*
Goro Ibuki as
Wada Yoshimori
*
Jouji Nakata as
Nitta Tadatsune
*Hōsei Komatsu as Kazusa-no-suke Hirotsune
Hōjō clan
*Ryunosuke Kaneda as
Hōjō Tokimasa
*
Naoko Otani as Maki no Kata
*
Ken Matsudaira as
Hojo Yoshitoki
Hojo or Hōjō may refer to:
Hojo or HoJo:
*Howard Johnson's, a U.S. chain of restaurants and hotels
*A nickname for Howard Johnson
*A nickname for Howard Jones
*A nickname for Howard Jones
*MGR-1 Honest John, the first nuclear-capable missile ...
*Jin Nakayama as Hōjō Munetoki
*
Junpei Morita as
Hōjō Tokifusa
*Hisayuki Nakajima as
Hōjō Yasutoki
**
Toshinori Omi
is a Japanese actor.
Career
Born in Tokyo, Omi joined the children's theater troupe Himawari Theatre Group when he was still in kindergarten. He made his film debut at age 13 in Kon Ichikawa's ''Hi no Tori'' (1978) and got his first starrin ...
as young Yasutoki
*Ryoko Sakaguchi as Nohagi, a.k.a. Hime no Mae, Yoshitoki's second wife
*
Keiko Matsuzaka as Akane (fictional person), Yoshitoki's first wife
Taira clan
*
Nobuo Kaneko
was a Japanese actor. His wife was actress Yatsuko Tanami. He appeared in more than 200 films between 1950 and 1993.
Career
Kaneko was a versatile character actor, playing roles ranging from comedic buffoons to hardened yakuza bosses. He is e ...
as
Taira no Kiyomori
was a military leader and ''kugyō'' of the late Heian period of Japan. He established the first samurai-dominated administrative government in the history of Japan.
Early life
Kiyomori was born in Heian-kyō, Japan, in 1118 as the first s ...
*Kaneko Iwasaki as
Taira no Tokiko, Kiyomori's wife
*
Ken Nishida as
Taira no Munemori
*Etsuko Ikuta as
Taira no Tokuko
Others
* Sakae Takita as Ito Sukeyuki
*
Akira Kume
was a Japanese actor and voice actor.
He died on 23 April 2020 from heart failure.
Filmography Films
*''The Insect Woman'' (1963) - Investigator
*''Tora! Tora! Tora!'' (1970) - First Secretary Katsuzo Okumura (uncredited)
*''Karafuto 1945 Sum ...
as Ito Sukechika
*
Isao Hashizume as Ito Sukekiyo
*
Takeshi Kato as
Ōba Kagechika
(died 1180), also known as Ōba Saburō Kagechika, was a samurai of Japan's Heian period. The third son of Oba Kageyoshi, he fought alongside his father, against the Minamoto Clan, in the Hōgen Rebellion of 1156.
Facing off against Minamot ...
*
Kyōzō Nagatsuka as Yamaki Kanetaka
*
Keiko Matsuzaka as Kogiku
*
Yumi Takigawa as Otowa
*
Rokko Toura as
Minamoto no Yukiie
* Shigeo Ozawa as Ashikaga Yoshiuji, Hōjō Yasutoki's son-in-law
*
Rino Katase
*
Yasuyoshi Hara as
Soga Tokimune
*
Toshio Kurosawa
was a Japanese baseball outfielder who played eight seasons in the Japanese Baseball League from 1936 to 1947. His career was cut short due to typhoid fever, from which he died at age 33. Kurosawa's number 4 was retired by his last club, the Yo ...
as Kokemaru
*
Akihiro Miwa
*
Akihiko Hirata as Ichijō Yoshiyasu
* Junko Natsu as Kyo no Tsubone
*
Kōjirō Kusanagi as Chinnakei
*
Mitsuko Kusabue as Tango no Tsubone
*
Onoe Shoroku II
Onoe Shoroku II (二代目 尾上 松緑, ''Nidaime Onoe Shoroku'', March 28, 1913 – June 25, 1989) is the stage name for Yutaka Fujima a Japanese kabuki actor who specialized in male roles.
Biography
During his life he was designated a Liv ...
as
Go-Shirakawa
* Onoe Tatsunosuke I as
Emperor Go-Toba
TV schedule
References
External links
Taiga drama Kusa Moeru NHK{{Taiga drama
1979 Japanese television series debuts
1979 Japanese television series endings
Taiga drama
1970s drama television series
Cultural depictions of Hōjō Masako
Cultural depictions of Minamoto no Yoshitsune
Jidaigeki television series
Television series set in the 12th century
Television series set in the 13th century