Episodes of Sanada Maru
Episode 19 "Koiji" (Romance)
Hideyoshi loves Chacha and hopes to make her one of his concubines. But she is on close terms with Nobushige. It makes Kiri feel unsafe and the rumour on them spreads in Osaka Castle and Kato Kiyomasa seeks his life.
Hideyoshi plans to build Jyurakudai (or Hyurakutei) in Kyoto and live there with Chacha. he tries to make her much happier for she had terrible childhood caused by him and his former master Oda Nobunaga. Chacha hopes to be with Nobushige and she feels that there is a kind of unbreakable tie between them. But he finally becomes to attend to Hideyoshi, not her and Chacha becomes a concubine of Hideyoshi. And Kiyomasa who tries to kill him moves to Kyushu as a lord of Higo, current Kumamoto.
Meanwhile Masayuki, yoriki of Tokgawa Ieyasu and Nobuyuki stay in Sunpu Castle of the Tokugawas whom his brother Nobutada serves. And Nobuyuki is asked to marry Ina, daughter of Honda Tadakatsu. Though he already has his wife Ko, Ieyasu tells him to divorce her.
Episode 20 "Zencho" (Premonition)
Some waka(poem)s that make fun of the pregnancy of Chacha are found on a wall of Jyurakudai. Nobuyuki and his superior investigates it and finds out that one of the guards is supposed to have done it. But the man called Dokyu cannot write letters.
Hideyoshi is filled with fury and executes all guards and but Ishida Mitsunari feels so depressed. And Nei tells Nobushige and Kiri that her husband is merciless in fact. Then he, Otani Yoshitsugu and Nobushige learn the death of Dokyu and put the guilt to him to prevent increasing those with false charge. Hideyoshi doubts that the father of Chacha's baby is not him but she refuses it.
In Ueda, Nobuyuki marries Ina. Masayuki and Kaoru sees one of the men who carries ther palanquin cries and are surprised to know it's Honda Tadakatsu.
Episode 21 "Sentan" (Hostility)
Nobuyuki marries Ina but has difficulty with her. On the other hand, his former wife Ko is still stays in Ueda Castle as maid and shows vivid than previous. And his father-in-law Honda Tadakatsu ofter visits Ueda carrying her favourite food along.
Chacha gives birth to a boy who is named Sute. Acha no Tsubone, concubine of Tokugawa Ieyasu who meet her feels that she gains self-confidence and the boy is going to influence those around him includes Toyotomi Hidetsugu, nephew of Hideyoshi as a result. And in Ueda, Sue, daughter of Nobushige and Ume is brought up by her uncle Hotta Sakubei.
In Sagami, current Kanagwa, Hojo Ujimasa has no intention of meeting Hideyoshi in Kyoto though Tokugawa Ieyasu, who is allied with him persuades him. Then Hideyoshi asks Masayuki to assign his fief in Numata, the area the Hojos and the Sanadas dispute the territorial rights to win Ujimasa over to his side. But it makes Masayuki angry and a tripartite meeting by Nobushige and the vassals of Ujimasa and Ieyasu.
Hideyoshi (Fumiyo Kohinata, left) is delighted to hear the pregnancy of Chacha (Yuko Takeuchi).