Eighteen Views of Oku

The seventh year of the extension was during the reign of the fourth shogun Tokugawa Ietsuna (played by Teruhiko). The weather is favorable and the country is peaceful and the people are safe. One day, while Ietsuna was out hunting, he happened to see a girl named Konatsu (played by Iori Yumi) bathing by a mountain spring. Attracted by his youthful and wild nature, Ietsuna took it as his own. Soon after, Xiaoxia was recruited into Ou and started a new life; Mino (played by Natsuko Yamamoto) was diagnosed as pregnant, but she was definitely not the son of a general, so she was brutally abused and eventually went to a dead end; Xiaoxiu (played by Kyoko Tsujizawa) gradually became tired of the boring and repressive life in Ou. She accidentally met the doctor Nakajo Genshiro (played by Katsuno Hiroshi) and fell in love. After Mino committed suicide, she also escaped from Ooku; the subordinate maid Kano (played by Mami Nomura) wet the general's clothes and finally got the general's forgiveness, and she also got Ietsuna's overnight blessing. A few months later, Ie Tsuna died suddenly, and all the women in Da'ao faced a common fate: either leaving Da'ao, or becoming a nun. The Fifth Generation Tsunayoshi (played by Hiroyuki Miyauchi) succeeded to the throne, and he ordered Genshiro to find a woman who exuded a musky scent in the great Oku...