History Series / Oshin

* AllLoveIsUnrequited: Kayo was in love with Kouta, but he could never return her feelings, mostly because he was dedicated to his cause and[[LoveTriangle because he was in love with Oshin]]. While she eventually gives up on him, it strains her marriage during its first years.

* ThatManIsDead: [[spoiler: Hatsuko]] declares to Oshin [[spoiler: after she finds her in a brothel at Tokyo]] that the woman she used to know died [[spoiler: along with her son Yu]], but as Oshin can see BeneathTheMask ([[RuleOfSymbolism while removing her excessive makeup]]), [[spoiler: the Hatsuko who came to her home whe little and considers her own daughter still lives]].

** Also Michiko to Hitoshi, which is one of the reasons that [[ObnoxiousInLaws made her clash often with Oshin]], since she was practically useless as a housewife ''and''[[MealTicket was aware that Hitoshi married her only to make business with her dad]].

* AllLoveIsUnrequited: Kayo was in love with Kouta, but he could never return her feelings, mostly [[LoveTriangle because he was in love with Oshin]]. While she eventually gives up on him, it strains her marriage during its first years.

* ThatManIsDead: [[spoiler: Hatsuko]] declares to Oshin [[spoiler: after she finds her in a brothel at Tokyo]] that the woman she used to know died [[spoiler: along with her son Yu]], but as Oshin can see BeneathTheMask ([[RuleOfSymbolism while removing her excessive makeup ]]), [[spoiler: that Hatsuko still lives]].

* UndyingLoyalty: Oshin to the Yashiro family, and Kayo particularly, even after stop working in Kigaya, to the point [[spoiler: she adopts Kayo's child Nozomi after she dies.]]

** Also Michiko to Hitoshi, which is one of the reasons that [[ObnoxiousInLaws makes her clash ofter with Oshin even in the present time]]

* ThatManIsDead: [[spoiler: Hatsuko]] declares to Oshin [[spoiler: after she finds her in a brothel at Tokyo]] that the woman she used to know died [[along with her son Yu]], but as Oshin can see BeneathTheMask ([[RuleOfSymbolism while removing her excessive makeup ]]), [[spoiler: that Hatsuko still lives]].

* BenevolentBoss: Mrs. Yashiro, Oshin's second boss, is a CoolOldLady who recognizes Oshin's potential and encourages her, personally training her to be a useful asset to her business.

** Mrs Yashiro, as [[BenevolentBoss descibed above]].

* PluckyGirl - SilkHidingSteel: Oshin became a sort-of symbol of determination in Japanese society and media, as she's shown to never give up no matter what happen.

** Eventually Oshin herself; Kei adores her too much to travel with her and listen her story.

** Hitoshi intend to get Tei married to his best friend and NumberTwo Tatsunori in order to enforce ties with the Tanokura Supermarket business. [[spoiler: She ends up marrying him, not for the business, but because [[SingleWomanSeeksGoodMan she realises that she wants to be with a nice and caring man like him]].]]

** Hitoshi intend to get Tei married to his best friend and NumberTwo Tatsunori in order to enforce ties with the Tanokura Supermarket business. [[She ends up marrying him, not for the business, but because [[SingleWomanSeeksGoodMan she realises that she wants to be with a nice and caring man like him]].]]

* ArrangedMarriage: [[spoiler: Kayo runs away from her first one, but ultimately accepts getting into a second one to a UsefulNotes/TokyoUniversity graduate from a rich Osakan family. It ends ''badly''.]]

* MissingMom: Kei's mom [[spoiler: Yuri dies in a car accident.]]

* KickTheDog: Almost ''anything'' that Kiyo does to Oshin during her time in Saga.[[spoiler: [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone until Oshin miscarriaged her baby beacuse of said treatment]].]]

* PassiveAggressiveKombat/PolitenessJudo: Almost ''all'' Oshin's interactions with her mother-in-law Kiyo in Saga and with her daughter-in-law Michiko.

* PassiveAgressiveCombat: Almost ''all'' Oshin's interactions with her mother-in-law Kiyo in Saga.

* PssiveAgressiveCombat: Almost ''all'' Oshin's interactions with her mother-in-law Kiyo in Saga.

* ColdBloodedTorture:[[spoiler: Kouta]] suffers this after [[spoiler:being arrested for his communist ideas in order to abbandon them]], to the point that he's permanently crippled.

** Hisa, Kouta's aunt, who helps Oshin to establish her fish market business in Ise, take care of her children when she had to leave her home and [[spoiler: hepls her after she was ditched from her house after the war]].

** Hisa, Kouta's aunt, who helps Oshin to establish her fish market business in Ise, take care of her children when she had to leave her home and
[[spoiler: hepls her after she was ditched from her house after the war]].
** Eventually Oshin herself; Kei adores her too much.

* ColdBloodedTorture:[[spoiler: Kouta]] suffers this after [[spoiler:his arrest]], to the point that he's crippled.

* ForWantOfANail: Used as {{Foreshadowing}}. While telling Kei about her encounter with Kayo in Tokyo during ther time as a hairstylist, [[InVinoVeritas a very drunk Oshin]] [[DrowningMySorrows cries while lamenting never telling Kayo]] [[spoiler: that Kouta indeed went back to Tokyo]] and [[ItsAllMyFault blaming herself for it]]. [[spoiler: Over a hundred episodes later, it's revealed that said event was [[DisasterDominoes the catalyst of the fall of Kagaya and Kayo's subsequent disgrace and death]].]]

* ForWantOfANail: Used as {{Foreshadowing}}. While telling Kei about her encounter with Kayo in Tokyo during ther time as a hairstylist, [[InVinoVeritas a very drunk Oshin]] [[DrowningMySorrows cries while lamenting never telling Kayo]] [[spoiler: that Kouta indeed went back to Tokyo]] and [[ItsAllMyFault blaming herself for it]]. [[spoiler: That event was [[DisasterDominoes the catalyst of the fall of Kagaya and Kayo's subsequent disgrace and death]].]]

** Also Michiko to Hitoshi, which is one of the reasons that [[ObnoxiousInLaws she often clashes with Oshin even in the present time]]

Shin "Oshin" Tanemura is the youngest daughter of a farmer family, who has to start working at age 7 because her father Sakuzou can't make ends. She, however, can barely make it through her first work and almost dies in a snowy day, and only forging a sort-of InterGenerationalFriendship with an ex-soldier saves her. Oshin's second work fares much better and she bonds with her employer's granddaughter, Kayo, plus gets something similar to an education and decides that someday, she will forge her own future. However, since her story is set in ImperialJapan plus she's a humble CountryMouse, it will NOT be an easy task... The story itself is marked as a 83-years old Oshin, now a very succesful entrepreneur, explaining her humble origins to her teenage grandson Kei.

* SelfMadeWoman: Oshin's biggest desire is to be a hair stylist and earn a happy life for herself.

* UptownGirl: Ryuuzo is from a rather rich family and they do ''not'' like to see their son courting a mere country girl like Oshin.