On'yado Kawasemi


On'yado Kawasemi or On-yado Kawasemi is a Japanese series of novels written by Yumie Hiraiwa and dramas and a play based on it. It is set in "Kawasemi", an inn in Ōkawabata, Edo. It was serialised in a magazine Shosetsu Sunday Mainichi from 1973 but was interrupted because of the discontinuance of the magazine. Later, it was serialised in All Yomimono from 1982 to 2005.

Plot

At the end of Edo period, Shoji Rui hands over her birthright to her relatives with the death of her father and begins running an inn "Kawasemi" in Ōkawabata. And she settles the matters in their daily lives with her lover Kamibayashi Tōgo, doshin Une Genzaburō, physician Amanō Sotarō, and O-Kichi.

Characters

Main characters

;Kamibayashi Tōgo
;Shōji Rui
;Une Genzaburō

People of Kawasemi

;Kasuke
;O-Kichi

The Kamibayashi family

;Kamibayashi Michinoshin
;Kanae

The Une family

;Chie
;Gentarō
;Chiyo

The Asō family

;Asō Genemon
;Asō Sōtarō
;Nanae

Other characters

;Chōsuke
;Sengorō
;Matsuura Hōsai

List of novels

Bunshun bunko (pocketbooks published by [Bungeishunjū])

  1. On'yado Kawasemi
  2. Edo no komoriuta
  3. Suigō kara kita onnna
  4. Sazanka wa mita
  5. Yūrei goroshi
  6. Kitsune no yomeiri
  7. Hōzuki wa koroshi no kuchibue
  8. Shirahagi yashiki no tsuki
  9. Ichiryō nibu no onnna
  10. Enma mairi
  11. Nijūrokuya machi no satsujin
  12. Yogarasu O-Kin
  13. Oni no men
  14. Kami kakushi
  15. Koibumi shinjū
  16. Hacchōbori no yuya
  17. Ugetsu
  18. Hikyoku
  19. Kakurenbo
  20. O-Kichi no chawan
  21. Inu hariko no nazo
  22. Kiyohime O-Ryō
  23. Gentarō no hatsukoi
  24. Haru no takasebune
  25. Takarabune matsuri
  26. Chōsuke no nyōbō
  27. Yokohama bojō
  28. Sasuke no botan
  29. Hatsuharu benzaisen
  30. Kijo no hanatsumi
  31. Edo no shōryō nagashi
  32. Jyūsann sai no nakōdo
  33. Koban shōnin
  34. Ukare kichō

Hardcovers

  1. Haru no kyaku
  2. Shūgen
  3. Senju kannon no nazo

Adaptations

TV Series

NHK adapted the series to TV series in 1980, 1982, 2003, 2004 and 2005.
Series 1 was broadcast from 8 October 1980 to 24 March 1981 and Series 2 was broadcast from 6 October 1982 and 13 April 1983 by NHK. And in 2013, both series and newly produced episodes starring Kyōko Maya and is set in Meiji era were broadcast by Jidaigeki Senmon Channel, describing Kawasemi and those who are related to the inn twenty years later. It was produced by NHK Enterprize and Jidaigeki Senmon Channel with the intention to keep the tradition of jidaigeki and it is the first case in which NHK Enterprize did not produce a programme for NHK.
In 1973, TBS adapted one of the novels "Aki no hotaru" to drama.
TV Asahi also adapted it to two TV dramas and one TV series, starring Yūko Kotegawa and Yasuko Sawaguchi respectively.
Cast

NHK Series 1 and 2
NHK Series 3–5
Shin On'yado Kawasemi
Aki no hotaru
TV Asahi dramas
TV Asahi Series 1

Play

It was adapted to a play and Yuko Hama played the role of Rui at the Imperial Theatre in 1984.

Comic

From 2012 to 2013, it was adapted to manga by Yuzuru Shimazaki and was published serially in a magazine "Comic Ran Twins". It was published as two volumes of books by Leed Publishing co, Ltd. in November 2012 and May 2013.