Dear Radiance

Dear Radiance is a Japanese historical drama television series starring Yuriko Yoshitaka as Murasaki Shikibu. The series is the 63rd NHK taiga drama.

Starring role

 * Yuriko Yoshitaka as Murasaki Shikibu. In the series, she is called Mahiro.
 * Miyuko Ochii as young Mahiro

Her family

 * Gorō Kishitani as Fujiwara no Tametoki, Mahiro's father
 * Ryōko Kuninaka as Chiyaha, Mahiro's mother
 * Mahiro Takasugi as Fujiwara no Nobunori, Mahiro's brother
 * Kōki Yuda as Tarō (young Nobunori)
 * Kuranosuke Sasaki as Fujiwara no Nobutaka, Mahiro's husband
 * Tarō Yabe as Otomaru
 * Seijun Nobukawa as Ito

Michinaga's family

 * Tasuku Emoto as Fujiwara no Michinaga
 * Kousei Kimura as young Michinaga
 * Yasunori Danta as Fujiwara no Kaneie, Michinaga's father
 * Kotono Mitsuishi as Tokihime, Michinaga's mother
 * Arata Iura as Fujiwara no Michitaka, Michinaga's brother
 * Yuka Itaya as Takashina no Takako, Michitaka's wife
 * Yusuke Kamiji as Fujiwara no Michitsuna, Michinaga's half brother
 * Naomi Zaizen as Fujiwara no Yasuko, Michitsuna's mother
 * Reo Tamaoki as Fujiwara no Michikane, Michitsuna's brother
 * Yō Yoshida as Fujiwara no Akiko (Senshi), Michinaga's sister.
 * Ai Mikami as Fujiwara no Akiko (Shōshi), Michinaga's daughter
 * Mitsuki Takahata as Fujiwara no Sadako, Michitaka's daughter
 * Tampopo Nakamura as young Sadako (around 12 years old)
 * Himari Kimura as young Sadako (around 8 years old)
 * Keisuke Watanabe as Fujiwara no Yorimichi, Michinaga's eldest son
 * Shohei Miura as Fujiwara no Korechika, Michitaka's eldest son
 * Yume Takeuchi as Fujiwara no Mitsuko
 * Ryo Ryusei as Fujiwara no Takaie, Michitaka's second son
 * Kumi Takiuchi as Minamoto no Akiko, Michinaga's another wife
 * Chikara Honda as Mozuhiko
 * Mitsuomi Takahashi as Fujiwara no Yoshichika, Michinaga's cousin
 * Ichirōta Miyagawa as Fujiwara no Akimitsu, Michinaga's cousin
 * Takayuki Sakoi as Taira no Korenaka

Uda Genji

 * Haru Kuroki as Minamoto no Tomoko, Michinaga's legal wife
 * Tōru Masuoka as Minamoto no Masanobu, Tomoko's father
 * Mako Ishino as Fujiwara no Mutsuko, Tomoko's 's mother

Michinaga's colleagues

 * Ryūji Akiyama as Fujiwara no Sanesuke
 * Keita Machida as Fujiwara no Kintō
 * Satoshi Kanada as Fujiwara no Tadanobu
 * Daichi Watanabe as Fujiwara no Yukinari
 * Daisuke Honda as Minamoto no Toshikata
 * Jun Hashizume as Fujiwara no Yoritada
 * Masanobu Sakata as Fujiwara no Tamemitsu
 * Ryujin Suzuki as Minamoto no Shigenobu
 * Yoshihiro Kurita as Fujiwara no Fuminori

Emperors and their families

 * Bandō Minosuke II as Emperor En'yū, the 64th emperor
 * Kanata Hongō as Emperor Kazan, the 65th emperor
 * Shunta Itō as Prince Morosada (young Kazan)
 * Akihisa Shiono as Emperor Ichijō, the 66th emperor
 * Hinata Hiiragi as young Emperor Ichijō (around 12 years old)
 * Haru Takagi as Prince Yasuhito (young Ichijō, around 10 years old)
 * Tatsunari Kimura as Emperor Sanjō, the 67th emperor
 * Sakura Inoue as Fujiwara no Yoshiko
 * Shizuka Nakamura as Fujiwara no Nobuko
 * Seia Yasuda as Fujiwara no Motoko
 * Aki Asakura as Fujiwara no Sukeko

Song dynasty

 * Haogo (Koji Yano) as Zhu Rencong
 * Kouhei Matsushita as Zhou Ming

Others

 * First Summer Uika as Sei Shōnagon. In the series, she is called Kikyō.
 * Hiroshi Ōmori as Kiyohara no Motosuke, Kikyō's father
 * Kaname Ouki as Akazome Emon
 * Yūsuke Santamaria as Abe no Haruakira, a.k.a. Abe no Seimei
 * Daiki as Sumaru
 * Katsuya Maiguma as Naohide
 * Masumi Nomura as Sawa
 * San'yūtei Koyūza as Eshi, a painter
 * Kayo Noro as Nui
 * Kanro Morita as Minamoto no Kunimori
 * Atsumi Tanezaki as cockatoo voice
 * Takamasa Tamaki as Minamoto no Mitsumasa
 * Yu Tokui as Ōno Kunikatsu
 * Junpei Yasui as Mikuni no Wakamaro
 * Takenori Kaneko as Hayanari
 * Kento Ogura as Tsunekata