The novel by the famous Japanese writer Yasushi Inoue (1907-1991) is dedicated to the real events of one of the most vivid and dramatic periods of Japanese history. The 16th century is coming to an end. Commander Nobunaga Oda is fighting for the unification of disparate principalities into a centralized state, he is replaced by Hideyoshi Toyotomi and reaches the heights of power, and after his death it is the turn of Tokugawa Ieyasu, the founder of the new shogun dynasty. In the midst of internecine wars, against the backdrop of burning castles, under the noise of bloody battles, Princess Tyata, Nagamasa Asai's daughter and Nobunaga Oda's niece, grows up and comprehends the concepts of honor and duty. She will become the concubine of the Asai clan's worst enemy, Taiko Hideyoshi, give birth to his heir, raise a brave warrior and lead him on his last journey to the ruins of the burning Osaka castle.