S01E01 The Star of Edo
Roughhousing daimyo Tokugawa Yoshimune of Kishu reluctantly becomes the Shogun so that he may bring prosperity to everyone in the country. On his procession to Edo Palace, he runs into his old friend Tatsugoro, and...
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S01E12: The Amazing Kishu Woman
Yoshimune's old friend from Kishu, a female lumberjack, comes to Edo to engage in lumber trade, but gets in trouble.
Overview
Set in the 18th century, the show follows the Shogun Yoshimune, who likes to disguise himself as a low-ranking samurai and go into his capital of Edo to see the life of the common man, as well as to seek out and punish evildoers who would hurt his citizens. He is aided by Magistrate Oo'oka and a vivacious fireman, Tatsugoro, as well as a rotating cast of other recurring characters.
Along with Zenigata Heiji and Mito KÅmon, it ranks among the longest-running series in the jidaigeki genre. Like so many other jidaigeki, it falls in the category of kanzen-chÅaku, loosely, "rewarding good and punishing evil."
Episodes
S01E02 The Remarkable Charlatan
Ogyu Shosen is called a quack doctor, but Yoshimune thinks he should be made surgeon-general.
S01E03 The First Fireman Banner
Hatamoto firemen are causing a nuisance and thieving in town, so fiery Tatsugoro and his gang of construction workers aim to take them down.
S01E04 Mother From Long Past
A hatamoto's spoiled brat daughter is in the habit of thieving and blaming it on commoners. Meanwhile, Yoshimune becomes preternaturally obsessed with a den-den taiko (a type of child's toy).
S01E05 Spring in the O'oku
S01E06 The Splendid Potato Samurai
S01E07 The Man of River Styx
S01E08 The Befouled Truncheon
S01E09 The Chivalrous Thief
S01E10 The Blossoming Meyasubako
S01E11 The Finest Kiyari Song
S01E12 The Amazing Kishu Woman
Yoshimune's old friend from Kishu, a female lumberjack, comes to Edo to engage in lumber trade, but gets in trouble.
S01E13 The Perilous Souvenir Gift
Yoshimune's old friends from Kishu, Sakichi and Onatsu of the lumber store, are leaving town, so Yoshimune comes to bring them a present. He ends up getting in the way of a drug bust and...
S01E14 The Golden Crow Charms
Fireman Genzo wins the lottery, but is then reported to the police for having a forged ticket.
S01E15 The Quack Who Calls Forth Spring
Even though he has been made surgeon-general, nobody trusts Ogawa Shosen or Yoshimune's city hospital. Yoshimune decides to get himself admitted as Shin-san to investigate from within.
S01E16 Showdown at Beautiful Yoshiwara
S01E17 Love and the Guardian Deity
Satsuma domain bully a store that is in their debt by trying to steal the storekeeper's girlfriend, and by framing them for theft. Only a man of stone can save Tamba-ya from destruction!
S01E18 The Beat of a Taiko Drum in Edo
Yoshimune really wants to attend a festival in Edo, but he has important business to attend to in the palace. Jii says he can go out as long as he is back by 4 PM....
S01E19 A Ballad of a Fireman
Tatsugoro's family is indebted to a samurai family, so Tatsugoro gives the samurai family his very best fireman to adopt, since the samurai have no heir of their own. The other samurai do not like...
S01E20 Iris and Sympathy
S01E21 Fireman's Standard was Watching
S01E22 Friendships Support the World
S01E23 Rage of the Fishmonger
S01E24 The Dreadful Shichi-ri Messengers
S01E25 Heavens! Great Trouble in Edo
S01E26 The Drunken Man Who was Promoted
S01E27 The Woman Who Challenged the Yagyu Family
S01E28 A Flower Blooms in the Dark
S01E29 The Goofiest Pickpocket in Edo
S01E30 The Misjudged Betrayer
S01E31 The Woman Who Disappeared from the Hunting Ground
S01E32 The Best Announcement of the Winner in Japan
Ryuko and Isonokaze were sumo wrestlers for a clan who tried to make them throw a match. Ryuko hides out at the fire house and meets Shin-san, who is very excitable and really, really wants...
S01E33 A Daimyo's Famed Shiruko Restaurant
A certain han ruled by a child lord is having money trouble, so one of the han's samurai starts a sweet bean soup restaurant to try and raise funds. The samurai has some trouble getting...
S01E34 The Women Who Dance in a Tempest
S01E35 The Bride with an Explosive
A land reclamation project is taking place largely with Shogunate funds, carried out by contract with 2 companies (which are marrying their kids together as the ultimate symbol of the contract). One of the companies...
S01E36 The Deceiving Mole Under a Woman's Eye
S01E37 Feel Her Heart
S01E38 The Woman Who Challenged Her Master
S01E39 A Sweet Snare from RyuKyu
S01E40 Go! The Prodogy of the Commoners
S01E41 Hara-Kiri! The Drunkard Magistrate
S01E42 A Hot Man and a Brazen Hussy
S01E43 The Shogun's Secret Ninja
Female ninja Osono's dad Seiemon comes to town. He is now a cotton-farming country samurai. Needs dried sardines for fertilizer. The hatamoto of sardineland is driving the fishermens' prices down so all the farmers secretly...
S01E44 Fresh Blood on the Bestowed Sword
S01E45 The Counterfeit Coins and the Candy Man
A man makes little pretty sugar candies for kids and tells funny stories. He used to be a counterfeiter because of his great manual dexterity, but vowed to turn his life around. Shin-san becomes interested...
S01E46 A Grand New Year's Gift
S01E47 The Female Doctor with a Fist
Edo is invigorated by an unusually aggressive and outspoken female doctor, Oshino, who physically beats her patients if they do not obey her.
S01E48 Hell in the Heavenly Bath
S01E49 The Pen is Mightier Than The Sword
S01E50 The Great Packed Lunch of a Woman
S01E51 The Bride of the Fish Market
S01E52 The Downfall of Ooka Echizen No Kami
A bad gang leader kidnaps Tadasuke's wife (who never appeared before or since), as she went to the shrine to pray for a baby. Tadasuke decides that justice outweighs his bride and prepares to prosecute...
S01E53 The Best Dry Sake for Mother and Son
Clannish Edoite sake sellers turn against a travelling Osakan female sake seller to force her out of the market; only her long-lost son, an Edoite sake seller, can save her.
S01E54 The Female Doctor Who Loves Money
Oshino, the female doctor with a fist, is in charge of a temple that gives free medical service to orphans, but it is reputed that she is stealing all the money instead.
S01E55 This Small Incident Occured Ten Years Ago
Shoheiko, the official Shogunate college, has an admissions scandal where the bureaucrats turn out to have been accepting bribes for admissions. Yoshimune suggests opening it to commoners and calls up some obscure scholars; the vicious...
S01E56 The Man Who Died in the Light Snowfalls in Spring
Ryuko's friend is killed by a rice wholesaler. Shin-san investigates this and discovers a whole sordid rice-based drama, including collective punishment, famine, and assassination.
S01E57 Eliminations of Black Sheep
S01E58 The Best Cherry Blossom Dance in Edo
S01E59 The Firemen's Standard is the Firemen's Heart and Soul
S01E60 Only the Sun Knew
S01E61 The Perished Love in a Spring Storm
S01E62 A Single Flower in the Dark
S01E63 The Fallen Flower in the Game of Chance
S01E64 Holding a Fire Standard for a Spear
S01E65 The Troublesome Tea Urn Trip
S01E66 Daruma Smiled on Joshu Road
S01E67 Commissioner Ooka Committs Hara-Kiri!
S01E68 A Bogus Complaint
S01E69 Very Proud of the Celebrated Sword
An unbalanced ronin wants to become the sword teacher to a daimyo, so he can get enough money to buy back his really sexy sword from the pawn shop. However, a competitor attacks him, crippling...
S01E70 A Loach Pot Rather Than A Domain
S01E71 The Best Godfather in Japan
S01E72 Revenge Colored with Safflowers
A pregnant safflower farmer's husband is run over by the local lord's horse. She's lured to the daikan's office to get compensated but is raped and turned into the lord's concubine instead. She schemes to...
S01E73 A Man Passionate About the Snow on Mount Fuji
A kind but untalented kitchen-supervisor samurai is assigned to accompany his domain's gift to the Shogun: big blocks of ice. Shin-san, tramping around Shinjuku, accidentally discovers this delivery and starts accompanying it too, and discovers...
S01E74 Kick the Edo Illness Out!
A mysterious illness (beriberi) becomes common and Yoshimune calls his doctor to find out what the cause is. His doctor says only his own special blend of medicine (very expensive) can cure it. Oshino, the...
S01E75 Gorozaemon Kano's Disappearance
Kano Gorozaemon, who is practically Yoshimune's adoptive father, goes out into Edo to get a surprise present for the Shogun, and is kidnapped by a nutter who wants to frame him for murder to steal...
S01E76 Suspicion Begets Idle Fears
A lord lets 3 master ghost actresses into his house as maids, somehow doesn't connect this with supernatural happenings in his house.
S01E77 The Bride That Came From Kishu
Kikue, the daughter of a potter, comes to Edo and meets her old friend Shin-san, who she recognizes as the Shogun. She came to marry Kano Gorozaemon, who proposed to her when she was eight...
S01E78 A Man Hunting the Whole Country
The Ogobanshu (kind of like a guild of hatamotos) want to hunt, but in setting the borders of the hunting area they recklessly steal the corner of a VERY sensitive farmer's farm.
S01E79 Peerless! The Taste of Momma
Matsumae domain officials and the store Ebisu-ya are conspiring to give predatory loans to alcohol shops. Lady merchant Omasa from Osaka wants to get a better deal, and her son unfortunately took the debt from...
S01E80 The Direct Retainers of the Shogun Run Wild
Hatamotos, a domain, a runaway killer samurai from the domain, the firemen, and jii for some reason, all end up in a gigantic free for all fight.
S01E81 Heroes in the Darkness
S01E82 Angelic Neighborhood Bully
S01E83 Thief Targeting the Nation
S01E84 O-sai Flies!
S01E85 Mount Fuji Saw The Wild Spear
S01E86 The Shogun Permitted a Thief
S01E87 Bullet Aiming At 8 Million Koku
S01E88 Burn! Even If You Must Die
S01E89 Embarrased To Recieve Flowers in Congratulation
S01E90 Beast Battle! Master Tatsugoro
S01E91 Duel! In the Stormy Castle
S01E92 Cheers! Quack Doctor
S01E93 The Will of the Raging Samurai
S01E94 The Lanterns of Early Spring and Noon Emerge
S01E95 I Saw a Rainbow in the Sea of Flames
S01E96 Get the Vermin Out of the Castle!
S01E97 I Don't Need a Mother!
S01E98 The Girl From the Wolf Village
S01E99 A Dohyori of Fire!
S01E100 The Fake Shogun
S01E101 The Eight Million Koku Porter
S01E102 The Collector Who Collected the Villain's Head
S01E103 Catastrophe! We Shouldn't Have Gotten Out of the Way!
S01E104 Japan's Most Wanted Bride
S01E105 Stop! Uncontrolled Official Carriage
S01E106 What is a Shogun?
S01E107 Watch Out! A Female Spy
S01E108 The Man Who Gives Orders to the Shogun!
S01E109 Snacks Delight on a Sunny Day
S01E110 Youth of Edo, Stand Up!
S01E111 Love Blossoms in Ubasuteyama!
S01E112 The Proud and Naive Samurai
S01E113 The Man Who Didn't Stop
S01E114 I Saw the Real One! The Hayabusa Brat
S01E115 Beware of the Quick Bucks
S01E116 The Man Who Died and Flourished
S01E117 Courage in the Face of Injustice
S01E118 Thief Training
S01E119 The Fox Woman Cries, the Banner of Empathy
S01E120 The Princess Take - Tears from a Wedding Procession
S01E121 The Flourishing of the Female Bushido
S01E122 The Sad Song of the South
S01E123 The New Boss! - Osai, of the Fire Extinguisher
S01E124 The One Who Stood Out After Being at Risk of Drowning
S01E125 Floating Lanterns That Mark a New Beginning in a Man's Life
S01E126 Love Sold for 20,000 Ryu
S01E127 The Trap in the Wolf Village
S01E128 Melancholy Ninja Love
S01E129 Dad, You Used to Be Someone
S01E130 My Childhood Friend is an Oku Woman
S01E131 There was a Bullet in the Clam Chowder!
S01E132 Run! The Shogun's Horse!
S01E133 Listen! The Chronicles of the Old Man and the Young Master
S01E134 A Silly Dance in an Oily Hell
S01E135 Duel on the Steam of Hell
S01E136 The Woman Who Bet on the Mountain of Fire
S01E137 Edo's Female Chief
S01E138 Hakone's Melancholic Drizzle
S01E139 The One Who Flirted Was to Blame
S01E140 The Wild Spear Everyone Fears
S01E141 The Bandit Harusame's Mother
S01E142 Munenryu Shintoism and Confucianism According to the Hayashi Clan
S01E143 I Am the Most Unpleasant Person in the World
Shin-san accidentally gets involved with two low-class thieving morons, to Tatsugoro's horror. Tatsugoro finally manages to get rid of them, and one of them is promptly killed by evil ninjas for having seen something he...
S01E144 One Life For One Isshou of Shochu
S01E145 The Silent Man's Divorce Letter
S01E146 Ah! Justice Has Tears!
S01E147 Megumi Clan's Love Bridge
S01E148 Japan's Number One Little Thief
S01E149 Tops Spinning Beneath a False Union
S01E150 The White Waves That Shame the Flowers
S01E151 Sado, the Shining Yellow
S01E152 The Shogun, the Horse Thief, and the Brat
S01E153 When a Man Sparks
S01E154 The Love That Blooms Inside a Coffin
S01E155 I Don't Want to Be the Shogun's Bride
S01E156 Jongara with a Munen-Ryu Kid
S01E157 The Cursed Box of 1000 Ryos
S01E158 Hell's Bells Ring at 6.00 p.m
S01E159 Rest in Peace, Onaka - The Flowing Lanterns
S01E160 The Flowers That Fall Without Waiting for Spring
S01E161 The One Who Smiled in the End
S01E162 The Blooming Ginseng Flower That the Firefighter's Matoi Made Flourish
S01E163 The Cowardly Samurai Who Made a Demon Woman Cry
S01E164 Break the Chains of the Heart With Human Kindness
S01E165 Whose Ungrateful Son is it
S01E166 Promise of the Bell the Girl With Bangs and a Sword
S01E167 The Decisive Duel of the Lantern Samurai
S01E168 Legitimate Marital Fight
S01E169 Clear Sky - The Hungry Lancer
S01E170 The Duel! Blood in the Fuefuki River of Koshu
S01E171 Burning Tears of the Traitor
S01E172 The Flower in the Shadow That Made a Man Bloom
S01E173 Waves of the Seto Maiden
S01E174 Onomichi - Sunset of Revenge
S01E175 The Million Kokus Dependent
S01E176 The Bond of Hatred Between Father and Daughter
S01E177 The Morning When Demons Wept
S01E178 The Bet For the Dance Fan in the Sumo Ring
S01E179 The Samurai Tanuki Performs a Great Feat
S01E180 The Man Who Steals While Preaching
S01E181 Oath of Brothers
S01E182 The One Who Eats From the Table and the One Who Doesn't
S01E183 The Night Flower That Blooms Once
S01E184 The Man Who Danced in the Shadows
S01E185 The Man Who Danced in the Shadows
S01E186 The Love Story of a Man and His Taiko Drum
S01E187 Sorry, Shogun! The Change of a Monk
S01E188 Call of the Storm! The Bride From Megumi
S01E189 The Heart of a Mother That Made Demons Cry
S01E190 The Number One Rain Man in Japan
S01E191 Cold Wind of Yoshiwara, Tears of a Woman
S01E192 Laughter and Tears, The Dramatic Life of the People of Kawachi
S01E193 The First Snow is the Make-Up of the Dead of a Sad Woman
S01E194 The Poor and Nameless Grass
S01E195 The Fragrance of the Sea, Tastes Like Mama
S01E196 Why Sadness in Sharing an Umbrella?
S01E197 A Remora That is More Frightening Than a Pufferfish
S01E198 Sadness. Fallen Flowers of Those Who Stay
S01E199 The Villain Who Laughed Last
S01E200 Laughter and Tears, Three Girls From Edo
S01E201 The Greatest Achievement of a Drunken Jitte
S01E202 The Tale of the Fame of the Fool Kanpachi
S01E203 The Flower That Disappeared in an Avalanche
S01E204 Farewell Flower, Night Gust
S01E205 Spring Has Come Again! Spouses' Kanzashi
S01E206 You're a Child. Don't Cry, Torokichi!
S01E207 The Farewell of the 808 Towns
Cast
Ken Matsudaira
Tokugawa Yoshimune
Saburo Kitajima
Tatsugoro
Tadashi Yokouchi
Oo'oka Echizen-no-Kami Tadasuke
