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* The fifth arc (chapters 25-26): A petty grifter named Sakyo is saved from a near lethal beating at the order of a passing noblewoman... who happens to be the next Shogun, Ienobu.
A [https://web.archive.org/web/20121005032539/http://ohoku.jp/ live action movie] based on the first arc was released in Japan in October 2010.
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* [[All Women Are Lustful]] - Somewhat deconstructed, as it is the prospect of ''children'' that so many women who cannot afford a husband are willing to pay good money for.
* [[Alternate History]]
* [[Anatomically
* [[Animal Wrongs Group]] - Tsunayoshi's "Edicts on Compassion for Living Things" turn Japan's government into this, with punishment for swatting insects and ''execution'' for harming the packs of stray dogs wandering Edo.
* [[Animation Anatomy Aging]] - Most noticeable with Tsunayoshi and Yoshiyasu since they're seen at various stages from girlhood to old age.
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* [[Dark and Troubled Past]] - Let us say that when we first meet Shogun Iemitsu the Younger there is a reason she comes off as a budding [[The Caligula|Caligula]].
* [[Deadly Decadent Court]]
* [[Death
* [[Death
* [[Deus Angst Machina]] - {{spoiler|Arikoto comes to terms with being forced to abandon his religious vocation and become [[A Match Made in Stockholm|the bedtoy of the Shogun]] only discover that he is infertile... and Iemitsu is not.}}
* [[Disposable Sex Worker]] - {{spoiler|The ladies Kasuga hires for the monks.}}
* [[Divorce Requires Death]]: Yunoshin needs to be declared legally dead in order to leave the Ooku.
* [[Double Standard Rape (Female
* [[Drinking Contest]] - Sakyo is first seen winning money in one. It seems he regularly drinks women under the table on a bet.
* [[El Cid Ploy]] - The original plan was to {{spoiler|conceal the death of Shogun Iemitsu until someone could sire a male heir on his bastard daughter and continue the Tokugawa line}}.
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* [[Gender Rarity Value]]
* [[God Save Us From the Queen]] - Tsunayoshi borders on this.
* [[Prison Rape|Harem Rape]] - Yes, they went there. [[Averted Trope|No]], it's not [[Double Standard Rape (Male
* [[Heir Club for Men]] - Kasuga is essentially a member of the club, but most of Japan gives up on it by the time the younger Iemitsu is unveiled.
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* [[Hidden Elf Village]] - The closing of Japan had a rather different rationale here. While the Dutch factory at [
** Edo Castle served as a miniature version for several years after the death of Shogun Iemitsu the Elder.
* [[Honest Advisor]] - Baron Hisamichi.
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* [[Jidai Geki]] - The Reverend Kasuga lived through the tail of the Sengoku period and the main body of the series is set in the early Edo period.
* [[Knight Templar]] - The Reverend Kasuga. She murders and kidnaps without batting an eye, and will use the only person she is halfway fond of as a brood mare. Her motivation?
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* [[Lady Land]] - Not only have women supplanted men in all remotely dangerous or strenuous occupations, but by the time of Yoshimune they have also almost entirely sidelined men in rulership and administrative positions.
* [[Loads and Loads of Characters]] - The story develops over several decades, so this trope naturally applies.
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* [[My Beloved Smother]] - Kasuga {{spoiler|to the original Iemitsu.}}
* [[Oh Crap]] - When Shogun Yoshimune informs her childhood friend and longtime retainer Hisamichi of her intent to replace all the privy councillors with a single intermediary to serve as a go-between between her and both the councillors and "that troublesome lot in the Inner Chambers," the latter could only giggle at first.
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'''Yoshimune''': "If so, then thou hast little reason to laugh, Hisamichi. 'Tis thou who shall fill the post." }}
* [[Only Six Faces]] - Mostly applied to young men.
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* [[Praetorian Guard]] - A secondary purpose for gathering so many male samurai in one place, especially early in the Ooku's history. Even in the series' present day, the men of the harem are required to train with the sword and to patrol the castle.
* [[Primal Scene]] - Tsunayoshi catches {{spoiler|Yoshiyasu and Keishou-in, her best friend and her father}} and has a breakdown.
* [[Rape
* [[Reasonable Authority Figure]]: Shogun Yoshimune.
* [[Red Light District]]: Yoshiwara in Edo, which fell on hard times with the coming of the Red Pox and was later revived by Iemitsu to provide the women of the city a chance at children.
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