is a Japanese television drama series and the 115th Asadora series. The protagonist is based on the novelist Chiyo Uno, but the work is a work of fiction, and her name has also been changed.
Plot In 1897, Tama Hano was born in Iwakuni, Yamaguchi Prefecture. She lost her biological mother at the age of two and was raised by her father and stepmother. She eventually embarked on a career as a novelist, but her life was marked by numerous hardships, including the Great Kantō Earthquake, the Pacific War, the bankruptcy of a company she had founded, and the debts that followed. Despite these hardships, she continued to write and eventually established herself as a successful novelist.
Cast Principal Shizuka Ishibashi as Tama Hano Ran Murakami as young Tama Mariko Kaga as old Tama
Her family Atsuro Watabe as Kiyoji Hano, Tama's father Ryōko Kuninaka as Ryo Hano, Tama's mother Masaki Miura as Kiyoshige Hano, Tama's uncle Wataru Hyuga as Mamoru Hano, Tama's brother Aoi Ito as Toshiko Hano, Tama's sister Taiyu Fujiwara as Hideo Hano, Tama's brother
Iwakuni Honoka Matsumoto as Ume Iwata Norito Yashima as Kozo Iwata Kaoru Kusumi as Katsu Iwata Mai Kiryu as Shinobu Kakuta Yuki Hana as Ineko Morioka Chisato Nakai as Tae Hashimoto Asuka Kudo as Tatsuhiko Shimamura Maho Yamada as Teruko Kimura Daichi Kaneko as Tamotsu Kimura
Tokyo Tsukasa Saito as Kumada Saori Seto as Matsuko Ai as Sugi Maokoto as Yone Yūko Nakamura as Maki Miyoshi Masaaki Akahori as Tatsugoro Miyoshi Junya Kawashima as Honda Hideki Kitano as Ryota Hidari
Hokkaido Kaoru Sugita as Namie Kimura Hiroki Miyake as Shogo Kimura
Authors Machiko Ono as Fuko Dobashi, modeled after Nobuko Yoshiya Shota Sometani as Ichiro Nishio, modeled after Shiro Ozaki Kengo Kora as Kakunosuke Akiyama, modeled after Ryūnosuke Akutagawa Himi Sato as Kiichiro Kajiya, modeled after Motojirō Kajii Ryo Nishikido as, Ginji Natsui, modeled after Seiji Tōgō Issey Ogata as Ushimaru Koyama
Literary magazine Shuto Koron Kenichi Endō as Daizaburo Kurosaki Arata Iura as Yuzo Yamanaka Hitoe Ohkubo as Yokota
Others Takako Matsu as Yuko Fujikawa, Tama's assistant.
Production On May 29, 2025, NHK held a press conference to announce the production of Blossom, the 115th installment of the Asadora series, and announced that Shizuka Ishibashi would play the heroine. Chief producer Shunpei Murayama also revealed that Ishibashi had been offered the role directly rather than selected through an audition. He explained that the decision was based on the fact that, when considering the life of Chiyo Uno, the model for the protagonist, her thirties and forties were particularly important periods.
TV schedule WeekEpisodesTitleDirected byOriginal airdateRating11–5Makoto BonkobaraSeptember 28–October 2, 202614.6%26–10October 5–9, 2026311–15 October 12–16, 2026
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External links Official website