Season 1 • Episode 48
LatestIn 18th-century Edo, Tsutaya Juzaburo rises from a poor background to become a leading publisher. Despite political changes threatening his career, he works to shape Edo’s cultural scene through innovative books and collaborations with artists.
Production
Taiga budget on full display — every frame a woodblock print
Costume
Kasei era fashion that slaps harder than your faves
Acting
Yokohama's Juzaburo: cunning smile, desperate eyes
Ryusei Yokohama
Tsutaya Juzaburo
Ken Yasuda
Hiraga Gannai
Fuka Koshiba
Hananoi
Hio Miyazawa
Tanuma Okitomo
Hayato Nakamura
Hasegawa Heizou
Koji Ishizaka
Matsudaira Takechika
Ainosuke Kataoka
Urokogataya Magobe
Katsumi Takahashi
Surugaya
Kōtarō Satomi
Suwaraya Ichibe
Ken Watanabe
Tamema Okitsugu
Haruka Ayase
Narration (voice)
Toma Ikuta
Yumi Adachi
Ai Hashimoto
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Tsutaya Juzaburo was the real-life publisher of Hokusai and Utamaro; his shop was the 18th-century equivalent of a hype house for starving artists.
The series recreates actual ukiyo-e prints down to the paper grain — the prop department consulted the same museum collections that still debate Sharaku's true identity.
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