- Dawson Casting: Yūko Tanaka was 28 when she played 16-year-old Oshin during the series.
- Ayako Kobayashi was eleven when she played seven-year-old Oshin in the series.
- Referenced by...: As an icon of Japanese media, it tends to get alluded to a fair bit:
- In Ouran High School Host Club, Tamaki refers to Haruhi as "Oshin", someone "sold to a mean master who'd overwork you and leave you crying into your pillow night after night." He also asks Haruhi if she subsisted "on rice and horseradish", one of the most often-seen meals in the show.
- The sumo wrestler and later trainer Takaya "Takanosato" Toshihide was given the Fan Nickname "Oshin Yokozuna", as he fought his way up to the rank of yokozuna, despite dealing with diabetes.
- A famous cruise line down the Mogami River was renamed the "Oshin Line".
- Underage Casting: Nobuko Otowa was actually 59 when she played 83-year-old Oshin in the present day scenes of the drama.
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