In this weeks episode, Hideyoshi is trying to make Ieyasu come to Osaka to form a truce and actually has his sister Asahi, divorce her husband and marry Ieyasu. According to the Hiragana Times Asahi was actually Hideyoshi's half-sister. She was a happy farmer's wife until her husband is killed helping Hideyoshi rise to glory. Hideyoshi later forces a low ranked samurai to marry her and they are quite happy. In this episode, Hideyoshi and his wife Nene conspire to have the divorce come about, telling Asahi and her husband that the other wants the divorce. Asahi has Chiyo write a moving goodbye letter to Asahi's husband but it looks like he actually committed seppuku. Bummer. I hope they leave this part out of the series.
Asahi goes off as "hostage" at age 43 to marry Ieyasu, and he finds her "cute" and cherishes her.
I better not say much about what happens next. I couldn't wait and read ahead. I do that sometimes, read the end of a book I'm reading. Impatient, heh.
As a digression, I was surpised to learn that the actress playing Chiyo, Yukie Nakama was also in G@me and Ring 0 the prequel the creepy Ringu the original creepy, drippy, long stringy black hair scary movie. I didn't recognize her.
Hmm, she was also in Love and Pop with Tadanobu Asano...I'll have to find a copy of that somewhere to watch.
On the work front, after a quarter of a century of having my own office I am now sharing with two other people. Rearranging the office to squeeze these bodies in and getting used to thinking while other people are talking has been a challenge. I threw a lot of stuff away. Whole books, "plop" right in the trash. I don't miss them. I still have a lot of crap. Oh well.
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