The Mistress of Yodo Castle

The novel by the famous Japanese writer Yasushi Inoue (1907—1991) is dedicated to the real events of one of the brightest and most dramatic periods in Japanese history. The end of the 16th century approaches. The warlord Nobunaga Oda is fighting to unite the fragmented principalities into a centralized state, followed by Hideyoshi Toyotomi who reaches the heights of power, and after his death, it is the turn of Ieyasu Tokugawa — the founder of a new shogunate dynasty. In the midst of civil wars, against the backdrop of burning castles, amidst the noise of bloody battles, the princess Tyatya, daughter of Nagamasa Asai and niece of Nobunaga Oda, matures and learns the concepts of honor and duty. She is destined to become the concubine of the arch-enemy of the Asai clan — the taiko Hideyoshi, to bear him an heir, to raise a brave warrior, and to see him off on his final journey amidst the ruins of the burning Osaka Castle.