Atsu Hime - Princess Atsu

RE-upload due to the count freeze on the former uploaded video on YouTube

Composed and performed by Naoko Maeda at the concert "Music of Asian and Black Composers" that was held at Southern Asian Seventh-day Adventist Church in MD on February 21, 2009. Atsu Hime who helped bring peace to Japan at the end of Edo era. She also helped Tokugawa Clan survive through Meiji Revolution.

(Excerpt from DoramaWiki)
Atsu-hime who was born in Kagoshima Prefecture 1836, then called Satsuma, and became the wife of Tokugawa Iesada, the 13th shogun of the Tokugawa shogunate. She accedes to the highest rank in Ooku, the inner palace of the Edo castle where women related to the reigning shogun resided. Iesada dies soon after their marriage and Atsuhime assumes the name Tenshoin at the age of 23. She exerts herself for the Tokugawa clan and for the nation during the upheaval in the Meiji Restoration.

This piano piece was for the first time performed for the concert.

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Music

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• Atsu
• Hime
• Princess
• Piano
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• 篤姫