The first episode of the 2026 NHK Taiga drama "Toyotomi Brothers!" (General TV, Sunday 8:00 PM and other channels), starring actor Nakano Taiga, titled "Two Monkeys," will be broadcast on January 4th with an extended 15 minutes. The story centers on Riho Yoshioka.
Kei will "walk the rest of her life with Koichiro as his legal wife."
Koichiro's legal wife, later known as Jiun-in. She survived the turbulent times and eventually supported the Toyotomi brothers together with her brother's wife, Nene. When her husband, Hidenaga, was entrusted with the governance of Yamato Province, she moved into Yamato Koriyama Castle with him and stayed with him until his later years.
In the first episode, "Two Monkeys," Koichiro (Nakano), born into a poor farming family in Nakamura, Owari, spends his days contentedly cultivating the fields and living with the soil. One day, a group of bandits attacks the village, and his childhood friend, Nao (Shiraishi Sei), is about to be kidnapped. His brother, Tokichiro (Ikematsu Sosuke), returns to the village after an eight-year absence and saves him from peril.
The story goes that Tokichiro, who dreams of becoming a great success in the service of the young Sengoku warlord Oda Nobunaga (Shun Oguri Shun), asks Koichiro to become his retainer.
