The 47th NHK Taiga Drama is a life story of Princess Atsu, who was born in Kagoshima Prefecture, then called Satsuma, and became the wife of Tokugawa Iesada, the 13th shogun of the Tokugawa shogunate. She accedes to the highest rank in Ooku, the inner palace of the Edo castle where women related to the reigning shogun resided. Iesada dies soon after their marriage and Atsuhime assumes the name Tenshoin at the age of 23. She exerts herself for the Tokugawa clan and for the nation during the upheaval in the Meiji Restoration, headed by those from Satsuma.
| Title | Air Date | Duration | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Season 1 | Episode 1 | Child of Destiny | 2008-01-06 | 60 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 2 | Vow at Sakurajima | 2008-01-13 | 60 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 3 | Satsuma Divide | 2008-01-20 | 60 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 4 | A Wise Lord Angered | 2008-01-27 | 60 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 5 | Japan's Best Man | 2008-02-03 | 60 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 6 | A Woman's Destiny | 2008-02-10 | 60 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 7 | The Father's Tears | 2008-02-17 | 60 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 8 | How to be a Princess | 2008-02-24 | 60 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 9 | Atsuhime is Born | 2008-03-02 | 60 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 10 | Determined to Become the Shogun's Wife | 2008-03-09 | 60 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 11 | Reunion on the Tanabata | 2008-03-16 | 60 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 12 | Farewell, Sakurajima | 2008-03-23 | 60 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 13 | The Mother in Edo | 2008-03-30 | 60 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 14 | The Father's Wish | 2008-04-06 | 60 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 15 | The Princess Goes to Battle | 2008-04-13 | 60 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 16 | Cherry Blossoms Amidst Tumult | 2008-04-20 | 60 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 17 | An Unexpected Marriage | 2008-04-27 | 60 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 18 | Nariakira's Secret Orders | 2008-05-04 | 60 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 19 | Ascend to the Ooku | 2008-05-11 | 60 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 20 | The Wedding Night | 2008-05-18 | 60 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 21 | Battle of the Wives | 2008-05-25 | 60 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 22 | The Shogun's Secret | 2008-06-01 | 60 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 23 | The Better Man | 2008-06-08 | 60 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 24 | It's Unforgivable, Atsu-hime | 2008-06-15 | 60 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 25 | A Mother's Love and Hate | 2008-06-22 | 60 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 26 | A Hell-Raising Petition | 2008-06-29 | 60 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 27 | Wife of the Tokugawa | 2008-07-06 | 60 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 28 | Two Wills | 2008-07-13 | 60 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 29 | Tenshoin Atsu-hime | 2008-07-20 | 60 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 30 | The Shogun's Mother | 2008-07-27 | 60 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 31 | Farewell, Ikushima | 2008-08-03 | 60 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 32 | The Incident Outside Sakuradamon Gate | 2008-08-10 | 60 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 33 | Princess Kazu | 2008-08-17 | 60 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 34 | Imperial Court and Feudal Clan | 2008-08-24 | 60 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 35 | Dagger of Doubt | 2008-08-31 | 60 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 36 | Satsuma or Tokugawa | 2008-09-07 | 60 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 37 | Friendship and Parting | 2008-09-14 | 60 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 38 | Heart of the Mother-In-Law, Heart of the Wife | 2008-09-21 | 60 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 39 | Satsuma Burns | 2008-09-28 | 60 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 40 | Son Taking the Field | 2008-10-05 | 60 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 41 | Satcho Alliance | 2008-10-12 | 60 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 42 | The Death of the Son | 2008-10-19 | 60 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 43 | The Determination of the Wife | 2008-10-26 | 60 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 44 | Ryoma Dies | 2008-11-02 | 60 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 45 | A Letter from Mother | 2008-11-09 | 60 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 46 | Yoshinobu Rescued | 2008-11-16 | 60 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 47 | Ooku's Messenger | 2008-11-23 | 60 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 48 | Bloodless Surrender | 2008-11-30 | 60 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 49 | Reunion on the Eve of Meiji | 2008-12-07 | 60 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 50 | One Path | 2008-12-14 | 60 min |
