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What is the English language plot outline for Ooku (2023)?

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It is a TV drama series that has been airing on NHK General's "Drama 10" slot since January 10, 2023. Based on Fumi Yoshinaga's manga "O-oku," it will feature three episodes of Tokugawa Iemitsu and Banrikoji Arimoto, Tokugawa Tsunayoshi and Uemon-sa, and Tokugawa Yoshimune and Mizuno Yunoshin, as well as the process leading to the return of the Grand Council of State, which has not been depicted in previous live-action productions. During the reign of Tokugawa Iemitsu, the third shogun of the Edo shogunate, a strange disease called "akasura pox" spread throughout Japan. The disease was a dreadful illness that "infected only young boys" and, if contracted, could lead to death "in a few days. No cure or treatment was ever discovered, and as a result, the male population plummeted to one-fourth that of the female population, drastically changing the social structure of Japan. Boys were bred to be scarce stallions, girls replaced boys as the workforce, and all family businesses were passed down from woman to woman. In Edo Castle, too, the shogun's position was handed over to a woman after the third shogun, Iemitsu, and the inner chambers of the shogun's palace surrounded rare boys as if they were proof of the shogun's prestige, creating a world of men commonly referred to as the "three thousand beautiful men.

Episode list

Ooku

S1.E1 ∙ Tokugawa Yoshimune's Story

S1.E2 ∙ Tokugawa Iemitsu's Story

S1.E3 ∙ Tokugawa Tsunayoshi's Story

S1.E4 ∙ Episode #1.4

S1.E5 ∙ Episode #1.5

S1.E6 ∙ Episode #1.6

S1.E7 ∙ Episode #1.7

S1.E8 ∙ Episode #1.8

S1.E9 ∙ Episode #1.9

S1.E10 ∙ Episode #1.10

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