Lady Ochiba is terrifying because she is ruthless, intelligent, and dead set on keeping her son alive. When she says the time for politics is over, she means it’s time to shed blood.

Lady Ochiba screams onto the scene with fire and fury in episode 6. She quickly bends Ishido to her will, inspires the murder of fellow regent Lord Sugiyama, and generally puts things in place to ...

Remember when I brought up the possibility of Lady Ochiba, the heir’s mother, being on Yoshi Toranaga’s side in the recap for Episode 5 of Shogun? Yeah, scratch all that. She’s a hater. That ...

“Shogun,” the new TV adaptation of James Clavell’s 1,299-page novel, ... Lady Ochiba is a telling example: While she emerges as a villain of sorts ...

“Shogun” is consistent in that respect, at least if you ignore the picture on the promos. In the end, it’s Lord Yabushige, ... Lady Ochiba. Mariko’s death spared thousands.

Although Lady Ochiba eventually sides with Toranaga in the finale, she doesn't seem to like him very much for the first nine ...

Lord Toranaga finally gets a worthy opponent, while Lady Mariko’s true mission is revealed. By Sean T. Collins In this week’s episode, we get to know Lady Ochiba no Kata: daughter of a brutal ...

The following article contains spoilers for Shgun Episode 9, "Crimson Sky," which premiered April 16 on FX. It also contains a mention of suicide. From the moment FX's Shogun revealed Lord ...

Ochiba no Kata (Fumi Nikaido) is one of the most fascinating (and terrifying) characters in all of FX‘s Shōgun. Not only is she the mother of the Taikō’s heir, but we also learn in Shōgun ...

In Shogun episode 7, ... Meanwhile, Lady Ochiba, back at Osaka Castle, plots revenge against Toranaga. She uses a nōh performance and recruits Lord Ito as the fifth regent to regain power. 3) ...

Lady Mariko and Ochiba are among "Shōgun's" women who navigated their social constraints in feudal Japan to live on their own terms. How the women in 'Shōgun' triumphed in feudal-era Japan - Los ...

But from what we’ve seen so far, I wouldn’t be surprised about Lady Ochiba, who returns to Osaka Castle at the end of Episode 5, doing the bidding of Toranaga as well, wittingly or not. She ...