Dear Radiance
1=Dear Radiance is a Japanese historical drama television series starring Yuriko Yoshitaka as Murasaki Shikibu. The series is the 63rd NHK taiga drama.
Cast
Starring role
- Yuriko Yoshitaka as Murasaki Shikibu. In the series, she is called Mahiro.
- *Miyuko Ochii as young Mahiro
Her family
- Gorō Kishitani as Fujiwara no Tametoki, Mahiro's father
- Ryōko Kuninaka as Chiyaha, Mahiro's mother
- Mahiro Takasugi as Fujiwara no Nobunori, Mahiro's brother
- *Kōki Yuda as Tarō
- Kuranosuke Sasaki as Fujiwara no Nobutaka, Mahiro's husband
- Sara Minami as Fujiwara no Katako, Mahiro's daughter
- Tarō Yabe as Otomaru
- Seijun Nobukawa as Ito
Michinaga's family
- Tasuku Emoto as Fujiwara no Michinaga
- *Kousei Kimura as young Michinaga
- Yasunori Danta as Fujiwara no Kaneie, Michinaga's father
- Kotono Mitsuishi as Tokihime, Michinaga's mother
- Arata Iura as Fujiwara no Michitaka, Michinaga's brother
- Yuka Itaya as Takashina no Takako, Michitaka's wife
- Yusuke Kamiji as Fujiwara no Michitsuna, Michinaga's half brother
- Naomi Zaizen as Fujiwara no Yasuko, Michitsuna's mother
- Reo Tamaoki as Fujiwara no Michikane, Michitsuna's brother
- Yō Yoshida as Fujiwara no Akiko, Michinaga's sister.
- Mitsuki Takahata as Fujiwara no Sadako, Michitaka's daughter
- *Tampopo Nakamura as young Sadako
- *Himari Kimura as young Sadako
- Keisuke Watanabe as Fujiwara no Yorimichi, Michinaga's eldest son
- Shohei Miura as Fujiwara no Korechika, Michitaka's eldest son
- Ruka Matsuda as Minamoto no Ikuko, Korechika's wife
- Yume Takeuchi as Fujiwara no Mitsuko
- Ryo Ryusei as Fujiwara no Takaie, Michitaka's second son
- Kumi Takiuchi as Minamoto no Akiko, Michinaga's another wife
- Chikara Honda as Mozuhiko
- Mitsuomi Takahashi as Fujiwara no Yoshichika, Michinaga's cousin
- Ichirōta Miyagawa as Fujiwara no Akimitsu, Michinaga's cousin
- Takayuki Sakoi as Taira no Korenaka
- Anna Kurasawa as Fujiwara no Kiyoko
- Kaisei Kamimura as Fujiwara no Yorimune
- Masaki Himekomatsu as Fujiwara no Norimichi
- Saku Momose as Fujiwara no Akinobu
- Yūtarō Furutachi as Fujiwara no Michitō
- Ryutarou Akimoto as Fujiwara no Yoshinobu
- Nanami Taki as Fujiwara no Yoshiko
- Yūdai Toyoda as Fujiwara no Nagaie
Uda Genji
- Haru Kuroki as Minamoto no Tomoko, Michinaga's legal wife
- Tōru Masuoka as Minamoto no Masanobu, Tomoko's father
- Mako Ishino as Fujiwara no Mutsuko, Tomoko's 's mother
Michinaga's colleagues
- Ryūji Akiyama as Fujiwara no Sanesuke
- Keita Machida as Fujiwara no Kintō
- Satoshi Kanada as Fujiwara no Tadanobu
- Daichi Watanabe as Fujiwara no Yukinari
- Daisuke Honda as Minamoto no Toshikata
- Jun Hashizume as Fujiwara no Yoritada
- Masanobu Sakata as Fujiwara no Tamemitsu
- Ryujin Suzuki as Minamoto no Shigenobu
- Yoshihiro Kurita as Fujiwara no Fuminori
Emperors and their families
- Bandō Minosuke II as Emperor En'yū, the 64th emperor
- Kanata Hongō as Emperor Kazan, the 65th emperor
- *Shunta Itō as Prince Morosada
- Akihisa Shiono as Emperor Ichijō, the 66th emperor
- *Hinata Hiiragi as young Emperor Ichijō
- *Haru Takagi as Prince Yasuhito
- Kataoka Sennosuke as Prince Atsuyasu
- *Kai Watanabe as young Atsuyasu
- Tatsunari Kimura as Emperor Sanjō, the 67th emperor
- Sakura Inoue as Fujiwara no Yoshiko
- Shizuka Nakamura as Fujiwara no Nobuko
- Seia Yasuda as Fujiwara no Motoko
- Aki Asakura as Fujiwara no Sukeko
- Tatsumi Asa as Prince Atsuakira
- Hinako Tanaka as Queen Takahime
- Yukino Kaizu as Princess Nagako
- Hinata Takano as Emperor Go-Ichijō, the 68th emperor
- *Ise Hashimoto as Prince Atsuhira
- *Ren Ishizuka as Prince Atsuhira
- *Aoi Hamada as Prince Atsuhira
Empress Akiko and the women who serve her
- Ai Mikami as Empress Akiko (Shōshi), Michinaga's daughter and Emperor Ichijō's wife
- Rika Izumi as Izumi Shikibu
- Kinako Kobayashi as Miya no Senji
- Rena Mashita as Dainagon no Kimi
- Kaori Seto as Saishō no Kimi
- Natsu Fukui as Koshōshō no Kimi
- Rio Kanno as Saemon no Naishi
- Ui as Uma-no-Chūjō no Kimi
Song dynasty
- Haogo as Zhu Rencong
- Kouhei Matsushita as Zhou Ming
Others
- First Summer Uika as Sei Shōnagon. In the series, she is called Kikyō.
- Hiroshi Ōmori as Kiyohara no Motosuke, Kikyō's father
- Kaname Ouki as Akazome Emon
- Yūsuke Santamaria as Abe no Haruakira, a.k.a. Abe no Seimei
- Daiki as Sumaru
- Katsuya Maiguma as Naohide
- Masumi Nomura as Sawa
- San'yūtei Koyūza as Eshi, a painter
- Kayo Noro as Nui
- Kanro Morita as Minamoto no Kunimori
- Atsumi Tanezaki as cockatoo voice
- Takamasa Tamaki as Minamoto no Mitsumasa
- Yu Tokui as Ōno Kunikatsu
- Junpei Yasui as Mikuni no Wakamaro
- Takenori Kaneko as Hayanari
- Kento Ogura as Tsunekata
- Kentarō Itō as Sōjumaru
- Miyu Yagyu as Toshiko, Kintō's wife
- Shoichiro Akaboshi as Jōchō
- Ryuhei Watabe as Kyōri
- Ozuno Nakamura as Taira no Muneyori
- Masashi Taniguchi as Ōe no Masahira
- Chinami Nishimura as a Myōbu
- Nao Kosaka as Saiin no Chūjō
- Yū Kamio as Taira no Tamekata
- Sakura Kiryu as Sugawara no Takasue's daughter
- Aina Yamada as Fujiwara no Nobuko
- Masayuki Deai as Fujiwara no Tomochika
- Kenji Matsuda as Fujiwara no Suketaka
- Shinji Asakura as Ōkura no Taneki
- Kenta Uchino as Taira no Muneyuki
- Kunihiro Suda as Takarabe no Hironobu
- Norihito Kaneko as Ōga no Morimiya
- Biyori Moriya as Fun'ya no Tadamitsu
- Tyson Ohya as Jōkaku
- Shohei Ueki as Minamoto no Michikata