Segodon
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- television series
- Part of
- taiga drama
- Country of origin
- Japan
- Original language
- Japanese
- Followed by
- Idaten
- Follows
- Onna jōshu Naotora
- Creator
- Mariko Hayashi
- Duration
- 45
- Official website
- www6.nhk.or.jp/drama/pastprog/detail.html?i=4136
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- number of episodes
- 47
- original broadcaster
- NHK
- Commons category
- Segodon
- start time
- 2018-01-07
- language of work or name
- Japanese
- end time
- 2018-12-16
- title
- 西郷どん
- narrator
- Toshiyuki Nishida
- set in period
- Meiji era
- characters
- Saigō Takamori
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Encyclopedic overview
22 sectionsContents
- Plot
- Cast
- Saigo family
- Ōkubo family
- [[Satsuma Domain]]
- [[Chōshū Domain]]
- [[Tosa Domain]]
- [[Fukui Domain]]
- [[Tokugawa shogunate]]
- [[Aizu]] and [[Kuwana Domain]]s
- [[Imperial House of Japan|Imperial Court]]
- [[Government of Meiji Japan|The Government of Meiji]]
- Foreigners
- Others
- Production
- Casting
- TV schedule
- Omnibus
- Soundtracks
- See also
- References
- External links
is a 2018 Japanese historical drama television series and the 57th NHK taiga drama. It stars Ryohei Suzuki as Saigō Takamori, who has been dubbed the last true samurai.
==Plot== The drama follows the life of historical figure Saigō Takamori. Born the first son of a lower-class samurai, he was exiled two times and went through three marriages. He was one of the central figures of the Meiji Restoration but later rebelled against the government over dissatisfaction with Meiji reforms.
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