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Toranaga reveals to Mariko that Jinsai wanted her to continue his work of protecting Japan. Toranaga also assigns her to take Blackthorne to a brothel named "Willow World." Ochiba and Ishido take the remaining three regents and their families hostage at Osaka Castle under the pretense that there is a plot to kill Yaechiyo.
Mariko Oi (大井 真理子, Ōi Mariko, born 14 December 1981) is a Japanese bilingual journalist based in Singapore, who has worked for the BBC since 2006, when she became the network's first Japanese reporter. [1] [2]
The series is set in 1600, and follows three characters. John Blackthorne , a risk-taking English sailor who ends up shipwrecked in Japan , a land whose unfamiliar culture will ultimately redefine him; Lord Toranaga, a shrewd, powerful daimyo , at odds with his own dangerous, political rivals; and Lady Mariko, a woman with invaluable skills but ...
“That would allow us to reveal those layers as the season goes on. Lord Toranaga gives Mariko a sense of purpose in her role as translator. She finds a new connection with Blackthorne and finds ...
As Shōgun details through the lives of Toda Mariko (Anna Sawai), Ochiba (Fumi Nikaido), and Fuji (Moeka Hoshi), a woman's life choices—if you can even call them that—consisted of wife, mother ...
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A doctor who specializes in the phenomenon of male pregnancy. He is Kentaro's and Shota's doctor. Shohei Uno as Shota Miyaji: Kentaro's first real friend and fellow pregnant man. Maho Yamada as Noriko Miyaji: Shota's thoughtful wife, who gave birth to their first child, Takuya. After having her first child she struggled to get pregnant again.
Blackthorne mourns over Mariko's body, imagining a dream of him as an old man back in England with her cross necklace, while Yabushige privately asks for forgiveness for his role in her death. After her funeral, the Council unanimously votes to declare war on Toranaga, although they do not believe Ishido's claims that Toranaga orchestrated the ...