Taiheiki

Taiheiki (太平記) is a 1991 Japanese historical television series and the 29th NHK taiga drama. It is based on the 1958 novel Shihon Taiheiki by Eiji Yoshikawa. Plot Ashikaga Takauji cooperated with Emperor Go-Daigo and overthrew the Kamakura shogunate. The emperor began the Kenmu Restoration, but the samurai are more dissatisfied than before. As the leader of samurai, Takauji is worried about whether to establish a new shogunate. Cast Ashikaga clan Hiroyuki Sanada as Ashikaga Takauji Yasuko Sawaguchi as Akahashi Tōko (Tōshi), Takauji's wife Ken Ogata as Ashikaga Sadauji, Takauji's father Shiho Fujimura as Uesugi Kiyoko, Takauji's mother Masanobu Takashima as Ashikaga Tadayoshi, Takauji's younger brother Kataoka Takatarō as Ashikaga Yoshiakira, Takauji's heir Yūsuke Morita as Senjuō (young Yoshiakira) Michitaka Tsutsui as Ashikaga Tadafuyu, Takauji's illegitimate son Yūichirō Yamazaki as Izayamaru (young Tadafuyu) Yasuo Daichi as Isshiki Umanosuke Akira Emoto as Kō no Moronao Kazunaga Tsuji as Kō no Moroshige Sansei Shiomi as Kō no Moroyasu Toru Abe as Kō no Morouji Kohji Moritsugu as Hosokawa Akiuji Akira Yamanouchi as Kira Sadayoshi Don Kantarō as Imagawa Norikuni