Hotarugusa ~ Nana no Ken

16-year-old Nana (Kiyohara Kaya) has gone into service with the Kazahaya family. The husband is Ichinoshin (Machida Keita) who treats his gentle wife Sachi (Tanimura Mitsuki) equally and the couple have two children. Nana is actually from a samurai family. Her father was about to expose wrongdoings within the domain when he was forced to commit ritual suicide by disembowelment for a crime he did not commit. After that, Nana hid her identity and sought refuge with her mother’s family. Sachi soon dies from tuberculosis, and Ichinoshin who intends to correct the wrongdoings of the domain, also ends up getting framed. When Nana learns that Todoroki Heikuro (Kitamura Yukiya), the person at the centre of this, is none other than her father’s enemy, she makes the decision to fight and protect Ichinoshin and his children just as Sachi had entrusted her to. Even Ichinoshin’s friends get ensnared by the enemy and the people who become Nana’s allies are nothing but difficult to deal with. However, Nana begins to challenge the enemy with their help as well as the evidence of misdeeds in the domain that her father left behind.

Synopsis: JDrama Weblog