NHK's history program "History Detective" (General Channel) will air "Asai Nagamasa and Ichi" on May 6th at 10 PM. Were Asai Nagamasa and Ichi truly an ideal couple? The program will delve into the truth of this tense Sengoku period couple through an investigation of Odani Castle.
This episode of the program is a collaboration with the network's historical drama "BROTHERS IN ARMS （Toyotomi Brothers!）", and Ayumu Nakajima, who played Nagamasa, and Aoi Miyazaki, who played Ichi, will also appear in the studio.
A special feature on Asai Nagamasa and Ichi, a couple who flourished in the Sengoku period. Was their image as an ideal couple truly real? A thorough investigation of Odani Castle, where the couple lived. Ichi, burdened with the fate of being a female spy for her brother Nobunaga, and her husband Nagamasa, who couldn't tell his wife everything. The tension that love alone cannot fully explain, and the truth behind their power struggles. The reality of a Sengoku couple emerges.
