Overview

In the 15th year of the Meiji era (1882), Ōkuma Shigenobu, expelled from the Council of State by the Satsuma-Chōshō clique, poured his personal fortune into establishing the Tokyo Professional School in a tea field in Waseda Village. With seven professors, including Takada Sanae and Tsubouchi Yūzō, and eighty-seven students, government interference extended even to finances; Ono Azusa, who tirelessly worked to secure funding, died from overwork.

Top Cast

Eitarō Ozawa

Ōkuma Shigenob

Shizue Natsukawa

Wife Ayako

Yūnosuke Itō

Koganei Daisuke

Ryutaro Otomo

Suginoe Kōji

Eijirō Tōno

Guest Nomura

Kinzō Shin

Ono Azusa (1884)

Tatsuya Ishiguro

Takada Sanae (1884)

Shin Tokudaiji

Kurishima Tsuneki, assassin

Hisako Yamane

Marie

Shūji Sano

Namishima Gen'ichi

Takashi Kanda

Takami Gōhei

Nobuo Kaneko

Hotani Nitarō