The 26th episode, "Three Women," of the NHK Taiga drama " UNBOUND (Berabou) " (General TV, Sunday 8pm and others), starring actor Ryusei Yokohama , will be broadcast on July 6th. The preview shows the words "Tenmei Rice Riots" and includes the words of Tsutaju's (Yokohama) biological mother Tsuyo ( Saki Takaoka), "You mean you don't even have a single bowl of rice to feed your mother!"
"UNBOUND (Berabou)" is the 64th taiga drama, depicting the life of Tsutaya Juzaburo(or "Tsutajyu" for short), who is said to have built the foundations of Japan's media industry and pop culture. The script was written by Yoshiko Morishita, known for "Drama 10 'Ooku'" which was broadcast on NHK two years ago and became a big hit.
In the 26th episode, the price of rice doubled from the previous year due to a poor rice harvest caused by a cool summer. The number of servants also increased, and at Koshodo, where playwrights gathered, rice was quickly depleted, causing Tsutaju to have a hard time.
Then Tsuyo, Tsutaju's real mother, shows up at the store and tries to stay there as a hairdresser. Meanwhile, in Edo Castle, Okitsugu(played by Ken Watanabe) takes measures to deal with the soaring rice prices, but they do not go down. The situation escalates to the point where Tokugawa Harusada(played by Hideki Takahashi) of the Kishu Tokugawa family, fed up with the shogunate's poor performance, issues a warning to the shogunate...
