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" ("kingfisher" in Japanese), an inn in Ōkawabata, Edo (now Sumida, Tokyo). 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.
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 (a sort of constable) Une Genzaburō, physician Amanō Sotarō, and O-Kichi.
| Alt Name: | On'yado Kawasemi |
| Genre: | Jidaigeki |
| Based On: | On'yado Kawasemi (novel) |
| Director: | Kiyū Okamoto (Series 1) Mitsuru Shimizu (Series 2) Rintarō Mayuzumi (2013 version) |
| Starring: | Kyōko Maya (Series 1–2 and 2013 version) Reiko Takashima (Series 3–5) |
| Theme Music Composer: | Shinichirō Ikebe (Series 1–2) Norihito Sumitomo (2013 version) |
| Country: | Japan |
| Language: | Japanese |
| Executive Producer: | Satoshi Murakami (Series 1) Takeshi Matsuo (Series 2) Tomoyuki Miyagawa (2013 version) |
| Channel: | NHK TV Asahi Jidaigeki Senmon Channel |
NHK adapted the series to TV series in 1980, 1982, 2003, 2004 and 2005.[3]
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" ("Fireflys in Autumn") 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 (1980–1983)
NHK Series 3–5 (2003–2005)
Shin On'yado Kawasemi (2013 version, broadcast by Jidaigeki Senmon Channel)
Aki no hotaru
TV Asahi dramas (1988 and 1989)
TV Asahi Series 1 (1997–1998)
It was adapted to a play and Yuko Hama played the role of Rui at the Imperial Theatre in 1984.
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.
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