The Lady Shogun and Her Men

In the year 1716 a mysterious epidemic stickens men in the country of Japan dropping the population of men to 14th of its prior state With the drastic reduction of men the gender roles have become reversed in Japan Woman become the dominant members of society and males are sought out for the ability to produce children A young man named Unoshin Mizuno hopes to marry childhood sweetheart Onobu but due to class differences realizes this is almost impossible To raise his social status and also save his poor family Unoshin Mizuno enters the Ohoku inner chambers of the Shuguns castle and attempts to vie among 3000 other men for the affection of the female shogun What Unoshin Mizuno quickly learns about the Ohoku is that the men there are all beautiful but highly ambitious and conniving In this environment the 7th shogun Tokugawa passes away and the new shogun Yoshimune Tokugawa takes the thrown and enters the Ohoku