Tenshoin Atsushi Hime Jo New Edition (Kodansha Bunko)

[Machine Translation] Atsuhime was adopted by the feudal lord Nariakira at the age of 18, and was a scholarly princess born into a branch of the Shimazu family of Satsuma. Nariakira, who admired Atsuhime's talent and ability, sent her to Edo Castle as a regular wife of Iesada, the 13th Shogun of the Tokugawa Shogunate. Atsuhime endured a token marriage, supported her ailing husband, and successfully managed 3,000 people in the inner palace as the shogun's personal attendant, but her adoptive father Nariakira's secret order was given to her....

十八歳で藩主斉彬の養女となった篤姫は薩摩島津家分家に生まれた学問好きな姫であった。その才覚、器量を見込んだ斉彬は画策の末、篤姫を十三代将軍家定の正室として江戸城に送り込んだ。形ばかりの結婚に耐え、病弱な夫を支え将軍御台所として大奥三千人を見事に統べる篤姫には、養父斉彬の密命が…。2008年大河ドラマ原作。