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Set in fifteenth century Japan, a noble autistic teenage girl is framed for adultery, tortured and left to die in the countryside until an insurgent ronin-monk discovers her and uses her “ghost” to topple an Ashekaga shogunate.
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Synopsis of ASAYI
Set in fifteenth century Japan the drama opens with Asayi, a nobly-born autistic teenager, copying legal scrolls for her elderly father, Oktani, the Shogun Ashekaga’s chief scribe. Asayi is a talented but cannot speak. No one knows of her disability except the Oktani household. The two travel then travel to the Shogun’s palace in Kyoto to deliver completed texts. At court, Nabui, the Shogun’s next most valuable scribe, eyes Asayi and cannot wait for the border wars to bring ruin to the Oktanis. Oktani confesses concerns about his health to the Shogun. Yoshinori Ashekaga assures Oktani that his daughter has the full protection of his Shogunate.
Upon arriving back at home, old Oktani collapses from heart failure and dies. Asayi is taken back to the palace where Yoshinori quickly marries her off to the scribe Nabui as his third wife. Nabui finds the girl sexually inept then finds out she is unable to speak. Nabui and family beat Asayi to get her to talk, perform an exorcism, then finally call for a physician. The physician says she has a birth injury which leaves her “defective.” Furious with his defective gift from the Shogun, Nabui takes his family away for a few weeks and leaves Asayi behind. She sketches and paints with a few scribes in the workroom. The workroom guard, Senji, looks at Asayi’s drawings and sketches small elements from her work on paper scraps which he hands off to her secretly. Nabui’s cook happens to sees this forbidden interaction. The Cook reports it to Nabui who then loads Senji and Asayi into a wagon and heads for the palace.
Nabui presents Asayi’s “infidelity” to the Shogun who has Senji severely beaten. Asayi is branded (between her thighs) in view of the court. Next her limp body is dumped in the countryside by a palace guard. The next day a tanner (Eta) finds Asayi and notices she is still alive. The Tanner uses Asayi to perform breaking work but she collapses. The Tanner sells Asayi to a blacksmith who has her chip metal from rock. A ronin-monk notices Asayi and asks the blacksmith if he may speak to her. The blacksmith permits the monk, Kanemura, to take Asayi to the home of a Buddhist nun, Suri. Here Asayi sketches for the two what has befallen her and Kanemura and Suri with their spy network identify who has harmed her.
Another ronin-monk, Hatano approaches Suri and Kanemura with a plan to use the ghost of Asayi to destroy Nabui and the Shogun. Kanemura agrees to the plan as a cover for other ronin-monks to infiltrate the peasant community to stage an uprising. Asayi’s ghost succeeds in killing off Nabui. Next, the Shogun is haunted by Asayi’s ghost but lady Muira, a lady in waiting, steps in with many truths: the spirit return. But when Asayi appears again, Lady Muira confronts the Shogun with many truths: that Asayi is the Shogun’s daughter, a product of his rape of Lady Muira, and because he had her husband intentionally murdered, she stabs the Shogun to death in front of the Asayi. Upon touching Asayi and finding she is real, Lady Muira faints. Asayi picks up her mother and has her removed from the palace as the assassination group runs away as a riot breaks out at the palace.
The group returns to the hut of Akumani, another buddhist nun who has helped the group with their work. Lady Muira then reveals her story to the group and but decides to return to the palace to assist Lady Ashekaga since no one in the palace will believe a woman killed the Shogun. Senji leaves with Lady Muira but promises to return for Asayi. The drama concludes with Kanemura and Hatano surveying the peasant revolt and the three women lighting candles and chanting in Akumani’s hut.
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Whats the Ashekaga?
Surname of the shoguns's family.
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