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May

What are the 13 people in the taiga drama "The 13 Lords of the Kamakuraden"?

The main character played by Shun Oguri, Yoshitoki Hojo-(C) NHK

 大河ドラマ「鎌倉殿の13人」の13人って?

The taiga drama "The 13 Lords of the Kamakuraden" starring Shun Oguri, which will start on the 9th (NHK General TV, etc.). The title "Kamakura-dono" refers to the Kamakura Shogunate Shogun, but who are the 13 people? I looked back on the broadcast. "13 Lords of the Kamakura" Recording site "13 Lords" are the old men who supported Minamoto no Yoriie, the second shogun, after the death of Minamoto no Yoritomo. Members are Tomoto Adachi, Morinaga Adachi (Yoshihiro Nozoe), Hiromoto Oe (Hideo Kurihara), Kajiwara Kagetoki (Shido Nakamura), Chika Nakahara, Nikaido Yukimasa, Tomoya Hatta, Hiki Yoshikazu (Jiro Sato), Hojo. Tokimasa (Yajuro Bando), Yoshitoki Hojo (Shun Oguri), Yasunobu Miyoshi (Takashi Kobayashi), Yoshisumi Miura (B by Sato), Yoshimori Wada (Eiji Yokota).

The drama depicts how the young Yoshitoki, who was one of the 13 people, climbed to the top of the samurai. At the time of the production announcement, Koki Mitani, who works on the script, commented as follows.

"After Yoritomo died, there was a young man named Yoriie, the second shogun, and because this Yoriie was the second generation, he said," I'm going to surpass my father! " In order to stop it, 13 vassals gathered and decided to proceed with everything by collegial system. This is the moment when politics moved by collegial system for the first time in Japanese history, which is exactly what I like. It's a setting. You probably don't know the names of these 13 people yet, but when this drama was aired in 2022 and it was about the end of the year, everyone in Japan was already the names of all 13 people. I am confident that I will be able to say that. While these 13 people are dropping out one after another in the power struggle, the last one left is "Hojo Yoshitoki." I will be the most powerful person who will lead the Kamakura Shogunate. I would like to draw up to that point in this drama. "

The title of the first episode is "The Great Skirmish". In 1175, when Taira no Kiyomori (Ken Matsudaira) reigned as a powerful figure, Hojo Yoshitoki (Shun Oguri) was in the land of Izu with his brother Munetoki (Ainosuke Kataoka) and sister Masako (Eiko Koike). I lived peacefully with them. At that time, the exile Minamoto no Yoritomo (Yo Oizumi) fell in love with Yae (Yui Aragaki), a childhood friend of Yoshitoki, and when a boy was born, Yae's father, who was entrusted with monitoring Yoritomo by Kiyomori. Yuchika Ito (Kazuyuki Asano) is furious. The situation at the time of righteousness will change completely. (Editorial department, Yuriko Ishii)