I am very happy that you are interested. <About the title and theme of this drama> This Japanese drama is called "Aoi Tokugawa 3dai" (3 generations). It is about the period from the Keicho era (1598 AD) to the Keian era (1651 AD), when Tokugawa Ieyasu became the first Tokugawa shogun and up to Iemitsu, the third shogun. The aoi (hollyhock) is the family crest of the Tokugawa family. <Historical background> In Japan there had been civil wars between samurai for more than 100 years since the end of the 15th century. Toyotomi Hideyoshi united Japan in 1590, but his regime fell after his death and the Tokugawa regime (Bakufu) achieved peace for the next 260 years. The Tokugawa shogunate was the last samurai era in Japanese history, lasting until 1868, when Western powers invaded East Asia and the modernisation revolution began. <About the drama series> This drama aired on NHK in 2000 and is considered one of the masterpieces of Japanese historical drama (Jidaigeki). Until this year, NHK broadcast a historical drama every year at 8pm on Sunday evning and is called Taiga (The Great River) drama series because it follows the life of a historical figure over the course of a year. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aoi_(TV_series) Opening movies of 1987-2022 ru-vid.com/group/PLAokqsdJPlcWtR5ChIN1iY0fAem0c2vGH