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* DressesTheSame: The Imperial court plans on mocking Iemochi for whatever her choice of outfit, to show their disdain for the shogunate. Iemochi forestalls them by dressing up exactly like them, stating that she could not lead the emperor's army or protect him in women's garb. This ends up impresssing Komei, if nothing else.
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* DressesTheSame: The Imperial court courtiers plans on mocking Iemochi for whatever her choice of outfit, to show their disdain for the shogunate. (If Iemochi dresses in Edo-style clothing, they'll mock her for being provincial, if she dresses in the Heian-style clothing of the Imperial ladies, well, she's just imitating them.) Iemochi forestalls them by dressing up exactly like them, stating that she could not lead the emperor's army or protect him in women's garb. This ends up impresssing Komei, if nothing else.
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* OldManMarriesAChild: Genderflipped with Iesada and her second husband. To be fair, Iesada didn't know until they met the day of the wedding that he was a child, and she's horrified. [[spoiler: And she knows her father did that on purpose to ensure no one else got to take [[ParentalIncest what he regarded as his.]]]]
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* OldManMarriesAChild: OldManMarryingAChild: Genderflipped with Iesada and her second husband. To be fair, Iesada didn't know until they met the day of the wedding that he was a child, and she's horrified. [[spoiler: And she knows her father did that on purpose to ensure no one else got to take [[ParentalIncest what he regarded as his.]]]]
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* OldManMarriesAChild: Genderflipped with Iesada and her second husband. To be fair, Iesada didn't know until they met the day of the wedding that he was a child, and she's horrified. [[spoiler: And she knows her father did that on purpose to ensure no one else got to take [[ParentalIncest what he regarded as his.]]]]
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* WalkingSpoiler:
** It's hard to talk about Ienari's reign without revealing he's the first male shogun in decades.
** Likewise, it's hard to discuss the later volumes or Iemochi's marriage to Kazu without the spoiler [[spoiler: that 'Kazu' is actually his sister Chikako.]]
** It's hard to talk about Ienari's reign without revealing he's the first male shogun in decades.
** Likewise, it's hard to discuss the later volumes or Iemochi's marriage to Kazu without the spoiler [[spoiler: that 'Kazu' is actually his sister Chikako.]]
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* TheUnfavorite: [[spoiler:Poor Chikako]]
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* TheUnfavorite: [[spoiler:Poor Chikako]]Chikako. Even when she flat out states Kangyo-in loves Kazu more than her, Kangyo-in didn't deny it.]]
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* DressesTheSame: The Imperial court plans on mocking Iemochi for whatever her choice of outfit, to show their disdain for the shogunate. Iemochi forestalls them by dressing up exactly like them, stating that she could not lead the emperor's army or protect him in women's garb. This ends up impresssing Komei, if nothing else.
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* NotSoDifferent: Iemochi and Komei bond over this trope, both acknowledging that to the rival factions they're little more than figureheads for their positions.
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** Iemochi was initially content to have Yoshinobu as her heir, knowing most would have preferred him as shogun anyway, but after he alienates everyone with his arrogance, she begins to seek out a new heir, eventually adopting from one of the branch families since she's barren. [[spoiler:Of course, anyone who's read up on the shogunate knows that this will end with Yoshinobu succeeding anyway.]]
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* TheUnfavorite: [[spoiler:Poor Chikako]]
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* BiTheWay: The line between this and SituationalSexuality is blurry, because Edo-era Japan had a fluid concept of sexual orientation and the gender ratios are so skewed, but [[spoiler:Yoshiyasu and Manabe]] both seem to have had romantic and possibly sexual relationships with both genders. Male impersonators like Ikushima Shingoro and Kikunojo II receive both male and female clients.
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In April 2020, it was confirmed that the manga [[https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2020-04-27/ooku-the-inner-chambers-alternate-history-manga-enters-final-arc/.159024 would be entering its final arc on June 27]].
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* SmallRoleBigImpact: Lady Matsu only briefly appeared in the manga, but her death shaped the entirety of the latter part of Tsunayoshi's reign.
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* AbsurdlyElderlyMother: {{Justified}}. Due to the {{Gendercide}} plague killing off the vast majority of men in Japan, the shogunate has been transferred to the female line. Even though the country is globally at peace, the need to have heirs and many of said heirs dying before adulthood results in some shoguns getting pregnant at advanced ages.
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* IAmNotPretty: Averted and defied by Yoshimune: she knows she's rather plain looking, but she isn't bothered by it because, as she herself prefers plainer men, she figures there will be a man interested in her plainer looks anyway.
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* DecompositeCharacter: [[spoiler: Kazu and Chikako.]]
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* DecompositeCharacter: [[spoiler: Kazu and Chikako. Kazu is the part of the real life Princess Kazu that was a member of the imperial family and who joined a monastery, which Chikako is the part of Princess Kazu that was female, in love with Arisugawa, and married Iemochi (and also the one missing a hand, which it's been theorized the real Kazunomiya did).]]
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* DecompositeCharacter: [[spoiler: Kazu and Chikako.]]
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* HeroWithBadPublicity: [[spoiler: Ienari deliberately asked the scribes to describe him in historical records as a 'mad, profligate spendthrift' and specifically omit any mention of the Redface Pox or his role in promoting a vaccine for it, for fear that foreign powers would find out about the low male population and take advantage of it.]]
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* HeroWithBadPublicity: [[spoiler: HeroWithBadPublicity:
** Shogun Ienarideliberately [[spoiler:deliberately asked the scribes to describe him in historical records as a 'mad, profligate spendthrift' and specifically omit any mention of the Redface Pox or his role in promoting a vaccine for it, for fear that foreign powers would find out about the low male population and take advantage of it.]]
** Shogun Iesada is troubled by constant vicious rumours about her mental state, health and especially her appearance, [[spoiler:all set in motion by her father to ensure no-one would ever marry her.]]
** Shogun Ienari
** Shogun Iesada is troubled by constant vicious rumours about her mental state, health and especially her appearance, [[spoiler:all set in motion by her father to ensure no-one would ever marry her.]]
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* DeadlyDecadentCourt: There is a lot of jockeying for power and backstabbing throughout the series, but three eras stand out from the rest.
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** The ''Bakumatsu'' period [[ForegoneConclusion that lead to the Boshin War and the fall of the Tokugawa Shogunate]]. Beginning with Tokugawa Iesada, the forcible opening of Japan strips the Shogunate of legitimacy while the imperial court at Kyoto becomes resurgent, backed by nationalist elements and the Chōshū and Satsuma domains who have become too independent and too powerful to rein in. Open assassination by pro-imperial factions soon begin to rock the court.
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** The [[spoiler:actual elimination of the Redface Pox by Ienari's vaccine programme appears to have put history back onto its 'historical' trajectory, barring that Japan is considerably more gender-equal than in RealLife.]] Thus, the Boshin War and the fall of the Tokugawa Shogunate appears to be all but inevitable at this point.
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* TheMole: ''Tons'' of them. Many of the advisors, chamberlains, concubines and even consorts in the Shogun's court are secretly working for one or several political factions trying to influence or reduce the Shogun's power, or put their own favoured candidate on the thronw, but how effectively all the other moles working towards different ends (or the occasional HonestAdvisor) are able to restrain them will differ from generation to generation.
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** After the hell of her first two marriages, Iesada comes to genuinely love her consort Taneatsu despite them being a political marriage. Taneatsu turns out to have been intended as TheMole by his father, but chooses to back Iesada instead and helps stabilize Iesada's shogunate and the line of succession... [[spoiler:And then Iesada dies of 'liver disease' while pregnant with their child.]]
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* ZeroPercentApprovalRating:
** Tsunayoshi becomes deeply unpopular as Shogun, some of it due to natural disasters she has no control over (as well as the 47 Ronin incident), but also due to her mercurial nature and indulging her father. [[spoiler:By the time she is killed she all but welcomes the prospect of death as she believes no-one truly wants her alive at that point... And sadly, she may have been right on that account.]]
** While she rules through Ienari and thus the people have no opinion of her, amongst the courtiers Harusada proves to be so vile that [[spoiler:when she's found poisoned the entire court agrees she's 'tragically' suffered a stroke and quickly set her aside, with no-one speaking up in her defence]].
** Tsunayoshi becomes deeply unpopular as Shogun, some of it due to natural disasters she has no control over (as well as the 47 Ronin incident), but also due to her mercurial nature and indulging her father. [[spoiler:By the time she is killed she all but welcomes the prospect of death as she believes no-one truly wants her alive at that point... And sadly, she may have been right on that account.]]
** While she rules through Ienari and thus the people have no opinion of her, amongst the courtiers Harusada proves to be so vile that [[spoiler:when she's found poisoned the entire court agrees she's 'tragically' suffered a stroke and quickly set her aside, with no-one speaking up in her defence]].
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* GenerationalSaga: Starting with the third Tokugawa Shogun and currently at the thirteenth. [[ForegoneConclusion Most likely it will end with the fifteenth Shogun being overthrown in the Boshin War]].
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** However, Iesada getting poisoned twice has led her to be barren, causing another to start: the options are Lady Tomiko, Iesada's cousin and closest blood heir, but too young and female for some lords, and Yoshinobu, whom many consider more suitable an heir because he's older, male, and quite intelligent, but Iesada personally detests because she views him as heartless, and would cause the ruin of the shogunate. [[spoiler:Complicating things further is Iesada isn't as barren as she thought, and conceives a child with her husband.]]
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** However, Iesada getting poisoned twice has led her to be barren, causing another to start: the options are Lady Tomiko, Iesada's cousin and closest blood heir, but too young and female for some lords, and Yoshinobu, whom many consider more suitable an heir because he's older, male, and quite intelligent, but Iesada personally detests because she views him as heartless, and would cause the ruin of the shogunate. [[spoiler:Complicating things further is Iesada isn't as barren as she thought, and conceives a child with her husband. However, she dies mid-pregnancy, and Tomiko assumes the shogunate as Iemochi.]]
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* LadyLooksLikeADude: Hiraga Gennai is a masculine-looking woman in this timeline, and fools just about everybody she meets into thinking she's a man.
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* LadyLooksLikeADude: LadyLooksLikeADude:
** Hiraga Gennai is a masculine-looking woman in this timeline, and fools just about everybody she meets into thinking she's aman.man.
** [[spoiler:Kazu successfully fools everyone into thinking she's a male until she undresses for her bath-''after'' her marriage to Iemochi becomes official.]]
** Hiraga Gennai is a masculine-looking woman in this timeline, and fools just about everybody she meets into thinking she's a
** [[spoiler:Kazu successfully fools everyone into thinking she's a male until she undresses for her bath-''after'' her marriage to Iemochi becomes official.]]
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* HistoricalGenderFlip: Almost all the {{Historical Domain Character}}s are genderflipped, except for those involved in the 47Ronin incident, [[spoiler: Shogun Ienari, Ieyoshi, and the future shogun Yoshinobu]].
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* HistoricalGenderFlip: Almost all the {{Historical Domain Character}}s are genderflipped, except for those involved in the 47Ronin incident, [[spoiler: Shogun Ienari, Ieyoshi, and the future shogun Yoshinobu]].Yoshinobu, and, ironically enough, Kazu]].
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* WhamShot: [[spoiler:Taniyama runs into Kazu's bath to see Kazu's very naked-and very ''female''-body.]]
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* The twelfth arc (Chapters 56-?): Iesada's husband Taneatsu is torn between his loyalty to the Satsuma clan and his growing love for Iesada, while another SuccessionCrisis looms between the future final shogun Yoshinobu and Lady Tomiko [[spoiler:further complicated by Iesada conceiving a child]], and the Americans under Townsend Harris become more aggressive in their demands to force Japan open.
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* The twelfth arc (Chapters 56-?): 56-61): Iesada's husband Taneatsu is torn between his loyalty to the Satsuma clan and his growing love for Iesada, while another SuccessionCrisis looms between the future final shogun Yoshinobu and Lady Tomiko [[spoiler:further complicated by Iesada conceiving a child]], and the Americans under Townsend Harris become more aggressive in their demands to force Japan open.
* The thirteenth arc (Chapters 62-?): Japan is on the verge of civil war between the pro- and anti-foreigner factions, and a marriage is arranged by Shogun Iemochi and Emperor Komei's brother Kazu. However, not all is as it seems.
* The thirteenth arc (Chapters 62-?): Japan is on the verge of civil war between the pro- and anti-foreigner factions, and a marriage is arranged by Shogun Iemochi and Emperor Komei's brother Kazu. However, not all is as it seems.
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* ArrangedMarriage: Part and parcel of the aristocratic life and a sign of a family's prosperity and status. As the effects of the Redface Pox grow worse, being able to marry at ALL becomes a sign of considerable prosperity. The shogun's formal consort is usually chosen from among the Imperial courtiers, in order to maintain Tokugawa influence in Kyoto, although of course she is also free to take concubines.
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* ArrangedMarriage: Part and parcel of the aristocratic life and a sign of a family's prosperity and status. As the effects of the Redface Pox grow worse, being able to marry at ALL becomes a sign of considerable prosperity. The shogun's formal consort is usually chosen from among the Imperial courtiers, in order to maintain Tokugawa influence in Kyoto, although of course she is also free to take concubines. Iemochi is arranged to marry none other than the emperor's own brother, Kazu, to try to sway Komei to the pro-foreigner side. [[spoiler:However, Kazu is a woman.]]
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** It's noted in Volume 13 that the line of emperors also included women during the height of the Redface Pox, however, Emperor Komei is a man.
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* GenderFlip: Almost all the {{Historical Domain Character}}s are genderflipped, except for those involved in the 47Ronin incident, [[spoiler: Shogun Ienari, Ieyoshi, and the future shogun Yoshinobu]].
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** By the time [[spoiler:Shogun Ienari]] come of age, the inner chambers for the first time become a domain of ''women'', something that the female-dominated court views as scandalous.
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* GenderFlip: Almost all the {{Historical Domain Character}}s are genderflipped, except for those involved in the 47Ronin incident [[spoiler: and incident, [[spoiler: Shogun Ienari]].Ienari, Ieyoshi, and the future shogun Yoshinobu]].
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** However, Iesada getting poisoned twice has led her to be barren, causing another to start: the options are Lady Tomiko, Iesada's cousin and closest blood heir, but too young and female for some lords, and Yoshinobu, whom many consider more suitable an heir because he's older, male, and quite intelligent, but Iesada personally detests because she views him as heartless, and would cause the ruin of the shogunate. [[spoiler:Complicating things further is Iesada isn't as barren as she thought, and conceives a child with her husband.]]
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* TakeAThirdOption: Hotta was stuck between two unhappy decisions: either sign a treaty with the Americans and be openly despised and censured by the 'Barbarians Out' faction that want nothing to do with foreigners, or refuse to sign and open Japan up to the possibility of a full blown attack from the Americans. [[spoiler:He chooses to stall by saying he needed permission from the Emperor first. Unfortunately, this was the absolute ''worst'' decision he could have made, as this severely weakened the shogun's power and opened up the possibility of the Emperor becoming more than a mere figurehead. And to make matters worse, the Emperor refused to authorize permission to sign the treaty.]]
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* The eleventh arc (chapters 52-?): [[spoiler:As the male-female ratio returns to normal]], a power struggle ensues between Shogun Ieyoshi and the would-be heir Iesada, while Commodore Perry finally arrives to force open Japan's ports to foreigners.
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* The eleventh arc (chapters 52-?): 52-55): [[spoiler:As the male-female ratio returns to normal]], a power struggle ensues between Shogun Ieyoshi and the would-be heir Iesada, while Commodore Perry finally arrives to force open Japan's ports to foreigners.
* The twelfth arc (Chapters 56-?): Iesada's husband Taneatsu is torn between his loyalty to the Satsuma clan and his growing love for Iesada, while another SuccessionCrisis looms between the future final shogun Yoshinobu and Lady Tomiko [[spoiler:further complicated by Iesada conceiving a child]], and the Americans under Townsend Harris become more aggressive in their demands to force Japan open.
* The twelfth arc (Chapters 56-?): Iesada's husband Taneatsu is torn between his loyalty to the Satsuma clan and his growing love for Iesada, while another SuccessionCrisis looms between the future final shogun Yoshinobu and Lady Tomiko [[spoiler:further complicated by Iesada conceiving a child]], and the Americans under Townsend Harris become more aggressive in their demands to force Japan open.
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* LaserGuidedKarma: Sugishita is one of the first men of the Ooku to show Yunoshin genuine kindness and shows him the ropes. As a result, Yunoshin brings him with him as an attendant when he's made a concubine of shogun Yoshimune. As a result, he ends up catching Yoshimune's eye (in a non-romantic sense) and is promoted to her personal attendant and later senior chamberlain after Yunoshin's 'death', going from one of the lowest-ranked members of the Ooku to the highest one.
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* FalseFlagOperation: To get revenge on the samurai who raped him and belittles Arikoto, Gyokei murders Arikoto's cat (gifted to him by the shogun) with the samurai's sword and leaves the corpse near his chambers. The samurai is forced to commit suicide.
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* MutuallyUnequalRelationship: Arikoto believes the shogun Ietsuna sees him as an doddering old fart, painfully oblivious to the fact that she loves him romantically. Absolutely everyone else can see it and repeatedly inform him of this (the fact that he was her father figure for most of her life doesn't help).
