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* YouCannotKillAnIdea: Implied with the ending. [[spoiler:As much as the Imperial government erases any proof Japan had been ruled by women and as much as the official line is that the Tokugawa shoguns were men, as long as there are still people alive that remembered the Tokugawa matriarchy they can pass that knowledge down through the generations, as Tensho-in did with O-Ume.]]
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* YouCannotKillAnIdea: Implied with the ending. [[spoiler:As much as the Imperial government erases any proof Japan had been ruled by women and as much as the official line is that the Tokugawa shoguns were men, as long as there are still people alive that remembered the Tokugawa matriarchy they can pass that knowledge down through the generations, as Tensho-in did with O-Ume.]]]] Which, in hindsight, makes it a nice parallel to how they got to the point where they could try killing the idea in the first place: After the men studying Western medicine got kicked out of the Ooku, they secretly kept researching to find a way to stop the Redface Pox anyway.
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''Ōoku: The Inner Chambers'' (大奥, ''Ōoku'', lit. "Great Interior") is an [[AlternateHistory alternate history]] [[ShoujoDemographic shōjo]] manga by Fumi Yoshinaga. It began in 2004 and finished in 2020 with a total of nineteen volumes. Viz Media holds the license to release the series in English.
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''Ōoku: The Inner Chambers'' (大奥, ''Ōoku'', lit. "Great Interior") is an [[AlternateHistory alternate history]] [[ShoujoDemographic shōjo]] manga by Fumi Yoshinaga. It began was serialized in the magazine ''Melody'' from [[LongRunners 2004 to 2020]], and finished in 2020 with a total of compiled into nineteen volumes. Viz Media Creator/VizMedia holds the license to release the series in English.
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''Ōoku: The Inner Chambers''[[labelnote:*]](大奥, ''Ōoku'', lit. "Great Interior")[[/labelnote]] is an [[AlternateHistory alternate history]] [[ShoujoDemographic shōjo]] manga by Fumi Yoshinaga. It began in 2004 and finished in 2020 with a total of nineteen volumes. Viz Media holds the license to release the series in English.
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''Ōoku: The Inner Chambers''[[labelnote:*]](大奥, Chambers'' (大奥, ''Ōoku'', lit. "Great Interior")[[/labelnote]] Interior") is an [[AlternateHistory alternate history]] [[ShoujoDemographic shōjo]] manga by Fumi Yoshinaga. It began in 2004 and finished in 2020 with a total of nineteen volumes. Viz Media holds the license to release the series in English.
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* AllForNothing: [[spoiler:The ''Chronicle of a Dying Day'', a record of the shogunate started during Iemitsu the Younger's reign and continued all the way up until the day the Tokugawa regime fell, is burned up to hide the fact that women used to rule Japan to the world.]]
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* KnowWhenToFoldEm: Above anything, Yoshinobu's main goal is self preservation and his image, so when he's arrested by the Meiji government, he accepts his fate rather than be seen openly as a traitor.
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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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* GenerationalSaga: Starting with the third Tokugawa Shogun and currently at ends four years into the thirteenth. [[ForegoneConclusion Most likely it will end with the fifteenth Shogun being overthrown in the Boshin War]].Meiji era.
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** While TheOtherWiki does not list the cause of death for the real life Iemitsu, by default Ooku!Iemitsu's death is this as it's implied her health was weakened by constant childbirthing attempts. By that token, Ienobu's death also counts.
** Iesada in real life likely died of cholera, but in this adaptation she died of [[spoiler:jaundice aggravated by her pregnancy.]]
** While it was speculated that Emperor Komei died of an assassination attempt in contemporary times, there's no proof of this and it's generally agreed he was the victim of smallpox. In ''Ooku'' it's made explicitly clear he had been poisoned by anti-shogunate forces.
** The real life Hiraga Gennai died in prison of tetanus after allegedly killing two carpenters. ''Ooku'''s Hiraga Gennai died of syphilis contracted after she had been raped.
** While TheOtherWiki does not list the cause of death for the real life Iemitsu, by default Ooku!Iemitsu's death is this as it's implied her health was weakened by constant childbirthing attempts. By that token, Ienobu's death also counts.
** Iesada in real life likely died of cholera, but in this adaptation she died of [[spoiler:jaundice aggravated by her pregnancy.]]
** While it was speculated that Emperor Komei died of an assassination attempt in contemporary times, there's no proof of this and it's generally agreed he was the victim of smallpox. In ''Ooku'' it's made explicitly clear he had been poisoned by anti-shogunate forces.
** The real life Hiraga Gennai died in prison of tetanus after allegedly killing two carpenters. ''Ooku'''s Hiraga Gennai died of syphilis contracted after she had been raped.
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* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:The imperial forces retake control of the government from the shogunate and their first task is to burn any evidence that the shoguns had been women, but Tensho-in finally gets closure on Iesada's death, Takiyama adopts Nakano and becomes a successful mercantile businessman, and Chikako is finally acknowledged to exist and is allowed to retire to a monastery to mourn Iemochi. The series ends on Tensho-in, now Takiyama's employee, telling a young girl traveling to America about how Japan used to be ruled by women.]]
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* {{Retcon}}: Employed on various levels, obviously, to hide the fact that Japan was ruled by women during most of the Tokugawa shogunate, but most obviously employed during the final volume, in which Saigo Takimori-an agent of the Meiji government, and therefore had every reason to discredit the Tokugawa shogunate-agreed that the shoguns were all men.
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A manga by Fumi Yoshinaga, the author of ''Manga/AntiqueBakery'' and a few other works, ''Ooku'' is the story of an [[AlternateHistory alternate Japan]]. A long-running epic spanning several centuries, the manga was serialized from 2004 to 2020 in the [[ShoujoDemographic shoujo]] magazine ''Melody''.
Our tale begins in the reign of Shogun Iemitsu, the third Tokugawa Shogun (1630s or thereabout). A plague, marked by fever and red boils, begins in a small mountain village.
It spreads.
Four out of every five plague victims die.
All those who catch it are men (mostly young) and boys. Indeed, most young men and boys catch it.
By the time of Shogun Ietsugu, some four generations later... things have changed.
* The first arc (Chapters 1-4) takes place in the fourth month of the sixth year of Shotoku (1716) and focuses on two newcomers to Edo castle: Mizuno Yunoshin, a young man of a semi-impoverished Samurai family who decides that a lifetime sequestered as a courtier in the Inner Chambers of Edo Palace (with a healthy stipend sent home) is an improvement over the prospect of a 'good' marriage to someone other than the merchant's daughter he has known since childhood... and Tokugawa Yoshimune, a ruler of the rural Kii province who maneuvered herself into position to become Shogun upon the death of the sickly child Ietsugu and is taking a hard look at what is around her.
* The second arc (Chapters 5-14) goes back to the beginning (1630) and centers on the beginning of the whole mess as young Abbot Arikoto, third son of Duke Madenokoji Arizumi, is summoned to pay homage at Edo and finds out why no one has gotten a good look at Shogun Tokugawa Iemitsu for six years... the hard way.
* The third arc (chapters 15-16): Iemitsu the Younger stands revealed, however even her official stance shows a hope of [[HeirClubForMen bearing a son]] and things returning to normal. [[ForegoneConclusion Fat chance]]. [[spoiler: She dies at age 27, leaving her eldest daughter Ietsuna (nee Chiyo) under the guardianship of Senior Chamberlain Arikoto (recorded in the official documents as O-man).]]
* The fourth arc (chapters 17-24): The fifth Tokeguwa Shogun, Tsunayoshi, brings both the Ooku and Japan itself to the brink of revolt through her capricious rule while plots to gain power over and through her [[DecadentCourt grow]].
* The fifth arc (chapters 25-26): A petty grifter named Sakyo is saved from a near lethal beating at the order of a passing noblewoman... who happens to be the next Shogun, Ienobu.
* The sixth arc (chapters 27-29): With the child shogun Ietsugu sickly, the succession crisis heats up, threatening the lives of both senior chamberlain Ejima and actress Ikushima Shingoro.
* The seventh arc (chapters 30-34): The story returns to Yoshimune as she begins her rule as shogun, institutes changes to better Japan and keep it isolated, commissions doctors to find a cure for the Redface Pox, and begins to bear children. With three daughters borne to her and a reputation as a popular ruler, Yoshimune's position looks very secure...but what of her successor? Will it be the elder but disabled daughter Ieshige or the younger but more hale daughter Munetake? [[spoiler: Yoshimune chooses Ieshige, but she proves an extremely ineffectual ruler.]]
* The eighth arc (chapters 35-39 ): Lady Okitsugu, Senior Chancellor of Tokugawa Ieharu, calls on the men of Deshima, the island where the Dutch are permitted to conduct trade with the Shogunate, to assist her in continuing Yoshimune's search for a cure to red-face pox...including a half-Dutch outcast named Gosaku.
* The ninth arc (chapters-40-43): As Gosaku (now Aonuma) and his students implement the first attempt at eradicating the Redface pox, Tokugawa Harusada plots behind the scenes to overthrow Okitsugu and Ieharu [[spoiler:to ensure the throne goes to her son.]]
* The tenth arc (chapters-44-51): Tokugawa Ienari rules as a [[PuppetKing puppet Shogun]], with Harusada being the true power behind the throne. As the traditional power structure of the inner chambers begin breaking down by Harusada's abuses of power, [[spoiler:Ienari slowly begins rebelling while Aonuma's former disciples attempt to carry on his legacy.]]
* The eleventh arc (chapters 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 56-61): 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.
A [[http://ohoku.jp/ live action movie]] based on the first arc was released in Japan in October 2010.
A manga by Fumi Yoshinaga, the author of ''Manga/AntiqueBakery'' and a few other works, ''Ooku'' is the story of an [[AlternateHistory alternate Japan]]. A long-running epic spanning several centuries, the manga was serialized from 2004 to 2020 in the [[ShoujoDemographic shoujo]] magazine ''Melody''.
Our tale begins in the reign of Shogun Iemitsu, the third Tokugawa Shogun (1630s or thereabout). A plague, marked by fever and red boils, begins in a small mountain village.
It spreads.
Four out of every five plague victims die.
All those who catch it are men (mostly young) and boys. Indeed, most young men and boys catch it.
By the time of Shogun Ietsugu, some four generations later... things have changed.
* The first arc (Chapters 1-4) takes place in the fourth month of the sixth year of Shotoku (1716) and focuses on two newcomers to Edo castle: Mizuno Yunoshin, a young man of a semi-impoverished Samurai family who decides that a lifetime sequestered as a courtier in the Inner Chambers of Edo Palace (with a healthy stipend sent home) is an improvement over the prospect of a 'good' marriage to someone other than the merchant's daughter he has known since childhood... and Tokugawa Yoshimune, a ruler of the rural Kii province who maneuvered herself into position to become Shogun upon the death of the sickly child Ietsugu and is taking a hard look at what is around her.
* The second arc (Chapters 5-14) goes back to the beginning (1630) and centers on the beginning of the whole mess as young Abbot Arikoto, third son of Duke Madenokoji Arizumi, is summoned to pay homage at Edo and finds out why no one has gotten a good look at Shogun Tokugawa Iemitsu for six years... the hard way.
* The third arc (chapters 15-16): Iemitsu the Younger stands revealed, however even her official stance shows a hope of [[HeirClubForMen bearing a son]] and things returning to normal. [[ForegoneConclusion Fat chance]]. [[spoiler: She dies at age 27, leaving her eldest daughter Ietsuna (nee Chiyo) under the guardianship of Senior Chamberlain Arikoto (recorded in the official documents as O-man).]]
* The fourth arc (chapters 17-24): The fifth Tokeguwa Shogun, Tsunayoshi, brings both the Ooku and Japan itself to the brink of revolt through her capricious rule while plots to gain power over and through her [[DecadentCourt grow]].
* The fifth arc (chapters 25-26): A petty grifter named Sakyo is saved from a near lethal beating at the order of a passing noblewoman... who happens to be the next Shogun, Ienobu.
* The sixth arc (chapters 27-29): With the child shogun Ietsugu sickly, the succession crisis heats up, threatening the lives of both senior chamberlain Ejima and actress Ikushima Shingoro.
* The seventh arc (chapters 30-34): The story returns to Yoshimune as she begins her rule as shogun, institutes changes to better Japan and keep it isolated, commissions doctors to find a cure for the Redface Pox, and begins to bear children. With three daughters borne to her and a reputation as a popular ruler, Yoshimune's position looks very secure...but what of her successor? Will it be the elder but disabled daughter Ieshige or the younger but more hale daughter Munetake? [[spoiler: Yoshimune chooses Ieshige, but she proves an extremely ineffectual ruler.]]
* The eighth arc (chapters 35-39 ): Lady Okitsugu, Senior Chancellor of Tokugawa Ieharu, calls on the men of Deshima, the island where the Dutch are permitted to conduct trade with the Shogunate, to assist her in continuing Yoshimune's search for a cure to red-face pox...including a half-Dutch outcast named Gosaku.
* The ninth arc (chapters-40-43): As Gosaku (now Aonuma) and his students implement the first attempt at eradicating the Redface pox, Tokugawa Harusada plots behind the scenes to overthrow Okitsugu and Ieharu [[spoiler:to ensure the throne goes to her son.]]
* The tenth arc (chapters-44-51): Tokugawa Ienari rules as a [[PuppetKing puppet Shogun]], with Harusada being the true power behind the throne. As the traditional power structure of the inner chambers begin breaking down by Harusada's abuses of power, [[spoiler:Ienari slowly begins rebelling while Aonuma's former disciples attempt to carry on his legacy.]]
* The eleventh arc (chapters 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 56-61): 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.
A [[http://ohoku.jp/ live action movie]] based on the first arc was released in Japan in October 2010.
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The effects this has on wider society are felt even four generations later. Traditionally male roles are now taken up by woman, including the position of Shogun. The Inner Chambers- which was once home to female concubines- now house the male consorts of the current Shogun, Tokugawa Yoshimune. Now in a position to enact lasting change, Yoshimune is determined to fix the rampant inequality and wastefulness of her country.
''Ōoku: The Inner Chambers''[[labelnote:*]](大奥, ''Ōoku'', lit. "Great Interior")[[/labelnote]] is an [[AlternateHistory alternate
Our tale begins
It spreads.
Four out of every five plague victims die.
All those who catch it are men (mostly young) and boys. Indeed, most young men and boys catch it.
By the time of Shogun Ietsugu, some four generations later... things have changed.
* The first arc (Chapters 1-4) takes place in the fourth month of the sixth year of Shotoku (1716) and focuses on two newcomers to Edo castle: Mizuno Yunoshin, a young man of a semi-impoverished Samurai family who decides that a lifetime sequestered as a courtier in the Inner Chambers of Edo Palace (with a healthy stipend sent home) is an improvement over the prospect of a 'good' marriage to someone other than the merchant's daughter he has known since childhood... and Tokugawa Yoshimune, a ruler of the rural Kii province who maneuvered herself into position to become Shogun upon the death of the sickly child Ietsugu and is taking a hard look at what is around her.
* The second arc (Chapters 5-14) goes back to the beginning (1630) and centers on the beginning of the whole mess as young Abbot Arikoto, third son of Duke Madenokoji Arizumi, is summoned to pay homage at Edo and finds out why no one has gotten a good look at Shogun Tokugawa Iemitsu for six years... the hard way.
* The third arc (chapters 15-16): Iemitsu the Younger stands revealed, however even her official stance shows a hope of [[HeirClubForMen bearing a son]] and things returning to normal. [[ForegoneConclusion Fat chance]]. [[spoiler: She dies at age 27, leaving her eldest daughter Ietsuna (nee Chiyo) under the guardianship of Senior Chamberlain Arikoto (recorded in the official documents as O-man).]]
* The fourth arc (chapters 17-24): The fifth Tokeguwa Shogun, Tsunayoshi, brings both the Ooku and Japan itself to the brink of revolt through her capricious rule while plots to gain power over and through her [[DecadentCourt grow]].
* The fifth arc (chapters 25-26): A petty grifter named Sakyo is saved from a near lethal beating at the order of a passing noblewoman... who happens to be the next Shogun, Ienobu.
* The sixth arc (chapters 27-29): With the child shogun Ietsugu sickly, the succession crisis heats up, threatening the lives of both senior chamberlain Ejima and actress Ikushima Shingoro.
* The seventh arc (chapters 30-34): The story returns to Yoshimune as she begins her rule as shogun, institutes changes to better Japan and keep it isolated, commissions doctors to find a cure for the Redface Pox, and begins to bear children. With three daughters borne to her and a reputation as a popular ruler, Yoshimune's position looks very secure...but what of her successor? Will it be the elder but disabled daughter Ieshige or the younger but more hale daughter Munetake? [[spoiler: Yoshimune chooses Ieshige, but she proves an extremely ineffectual ruler.]]
* The eighth arc (chapters 35-39 ): Lady Okitsugu, Senior Chancellor of Tokugawa Ieharu, calls on the men of Deshima, the island where the Dutch are permitted to conduct trade
* The ninth arc (chapters-40-43): As Gosaku (now Aonuma) and his students implement
A film adaptation of the first
* The tenth arc (chapters-44-51): Tokugawa Ienari rules as a [[PuppetKing puppet Shogun]], with Harusada being the true power behind the throne. As the traditional power structure of the inner chambers begin breaking down by Harusada's abuses of power, [[spoiler:Ienari slowly begins rebelling while Aonuma's former disciples attempt to carry on his legacy.]]
* The eleventh arc (chapters 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 56-61): 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.
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* DressesTheSame: The Imperial 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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* DressesTheSame: The Imperial 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, the courtiers, 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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** 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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** 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 [[spoiler:When she dies of beriberi-induced heart failure, the nobles pass over her designated heir because he's a child and name Yoshinobu shogun...only for him to cause the abolishment of the Tokugawa shogunate knows that this will end with Yoshinobu succeeding anyway.entirely due to his arrogance and being OutGambitted.]]
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* HoistByHisOwnPetard: Yoshinobu relinquished the shogunate's right to rule back to the emperor, with the expectation that, since the new emperor ([[UsefulNotes/MeijiRestoration whom is known as history as Meiji]]) was a mere teenager, Yoshinobu would be asked to take power back anyway. Unfortunately for him, the anti-shogunate faction got to Meiji first and convinced him to abolish the shogunate entirely.
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A manga by Fumi Yoshinaga, the author of ''Manga/AntiqueBakery'' and a few other works, ''Ooku'' is the story of an [[AlternateHistory alternate Japan]]. A long-running epic spanning several centuries, the manga ran from 2004 to 2020 in the [[ShoujoDemographic shoujo]] magazine ''Melody''.
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A manga by Fumi Yoshinaga, the author of ''Manga/AntiqueBakery'' and a few other works, ''Ooku'' is the story of an [[AlternateHistory alternate Japan]]. A long-running epic spanning several centuries, the manga ran was serialized from 2004 to 2020 in the [[ShoujoDemographic shoujo]] magazine ''Melody''.
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A manga by Fumi Yoshinaga, the author of ''Manga/AntiqueBakery'' and a few other works, ''Ooku'' is the story of an [[AlternateHistory alternate Japan]]. Our tale begins in the reign of Shogun Iemitsu, the third Tokugawa Shogun (1630s or thereabout).
A plague, marked by fever and red boils, begins in a small mountain village.
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A manga by Fumi Yoshinaga, the author of ''Manga/AntiqueBakery'' and a few other works, ''Ooku'' is the story of an [[AlternateHistory alternate Japan]]. A long-running epic spanning several centuries, the manga ran from 2004 to 2020 in the [[ShoujoDemographic shoujo]] magazine ''Melody''.
Our tale begins in the reign of Shogun Iemitsu, the third Tokugawa Shogun (1630s orthereabout).
thereabout). A plague, marked by fever and red boils, begins in a small mountain village.
Our tale begins in the reign of Shogun Iemitsu, the third Tokugawa Shogun (1630s or
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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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** After basically serial dog-kicking her way into power, Harusada makes Ienari shogun-in-name only so she won't have to bother with trying to have more children while remaining in power. She drives the government into debt with her excesses, [[spoiler:kills her loyal retainer (who was also his son's wet nurse) with poison, and indiscriminately kills her own grandchildren, for no other reason than she wants to.]]
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** After basically serial dog-kicking her way into power, Harusada makes Ienari shogun-in-name only so she won't have to bother with trying to have more children while remaining in power. She drives the government into debt with her excesses, [[spoiler:kills her loyal retainer (who was also his son's wet nurse) with poison, and indiscriminately kills her own grandchildren, for no other reason than she wants to. Ironically, poison was also what ends up killing her.]]
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** Harusada, who [[spoiler:poisoned and killed people for her own amusement, ends up dying from being poisoned.]]
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* LanguageEqualsThought: DiscussedTrope. Taneatsu's first encounter with English and its simplicity (compared to Danish and Japanese) leaves him wondering if it's the language which shaped the people or vice versa.
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* The fourth arc (chapters 17-24): The fifth Tokeguwa Shogun, Tsunayoshi, brings both the Ooku and Japan itself to the brink of revolt through her capricious rule while plots to gain power over and through her [[DeadlyDecadentCourt grow]].
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* The fourth arc (chapters 17-24): The fifth Tokeguwa Shogun, Tsunayoshi, brings both the Ooku and Japan itself to the brink of revolt through her capricious rule while plots to gain power over and through her [[DeadlyDecadentCourt [[DecadentCourt grow]].
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* DeadlyDecadentCourt: There is a lot of jockeying for power and backstabbing throughout the series, but four eras stand out from the rest.
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* DeadlyDecadentCourt: DecadentCourt: There is a lot of jockeying for power and backstabbing throughout the series, but four eras stand out from the rest.
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** 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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** 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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** Ejima develops a major FatGirl complex about his hirsutism and extremely burly body, because standards of attractiveness have shifted so far towards the feminine, especially in the upper classes.
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** Ejima develops a major FatGirl complex about his hirsutism and extremely burly body, because standards of attractiveness have shifted so far towards the feminine, especially in the upper classes.
