The Unfettered Shogun

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 a little girl begging for a pardon for her father on death row. Yoshimune decides to sneak out of Edo Palace and do a little detective work.

The Remarkable Charlatan

Ogyu Shosen is called a quack doctor, but Yoshimune thinks he should be made surgeon-general.

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.

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).

Spring in the O'oku

The Splendid Potato Samurai

The Man of River Styx

The Befouled Truncheon

The Chivalrous Thief

The Blossoming Meyasubako

The Finest Kiyari Song

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.

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 is mistaken for a drug dealer.

The Golden Crow Charms

Fireman Genzo wins the lottery, but is then reported to the police for having a forged ticket.

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.

Showdown at Beautiful Yoshiwara

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!

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. This doesn't seem likely, since Yoshimune gets involved in a big fistfight and village drama.

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 him.

Iris and Sympathy

Fireman's Standard was Watching

Friendships Support the World

Rage of the Fishmonger

The Dreadful Shichi-ri Messengers

Heavens! Great Trouble in Edo

The Drunken Man Who was Promoted

The Woman Who Challenged the Yagyu Family

A Flower Blooms in the Dark

The Goofiest Pickpocket in Edo

The Misjudged Betrayer

The Woman Who Disappeared from the Hunting Ground

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 to wrestle him. Eventually Shin-san learns of the wrestling drama that is unfolding...

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 customers...

The Women Who Dance in a Tempest

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 invents a bomb with a long fuse, to blow up a mountainous area in the reclamation zone. The other company decides to assassinate the first company, and steals the bomb...

The Deceiving Mole Under a Woman's Eye

Feel Her Heart

The Woman Who Challenged Her Master

A Sweet Snare from RyuKyu

Go! The Prodogy of the Commoners

Hara-Kiri! The Drunkard Magistrate

A Hot Man and a Brazen Hussy

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 sell to Seiemon. The merchant tries to assassinate Seiemon and fails, since Seiemon is a ninja. Seiemon stays at the firehouse and plans to secretly assassinate the criminals, then kill himself, because he's depressed.

Fresh Blood on the Bestowed Sword

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 in candy just when the guy's old friends force him to counterfeit again...

A Grand New Year's Gift

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.

Hell in the Heavenly Bath

The Pen is Mightier Than The Sword

The Great Packed Lunch of a Woman

The Bride of the Fish Market

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 the gang leader anyway, so Shin-san lets the prisoner go secretly to try and follow him to Tadasuke's bride...

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.

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.

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 bureaucrats attack and kill one. Shin-san absolutely loses his mind, but Tatsugoro is there to give him a helping hand.

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.

Eliminations of Black Sheep

The Best Cherry Blossom Dance in Edo

The Firemen's Standard is the Firemen's Heart and Soul

Only the Sun Knew

The Perished Love in a Spring Storm

A Single Flower in the Dark

The Fallen Flower in the Game of Chance

Holding a Fire Standard for a Spear

The Troublesome Tea Urn Trip

Daruma Smiled on Joshu Road

Commissioner Ooka Committs Hara-Kiri!

A Bogus Complaint

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 the ronin's hand. Shin-san is really mad about this, even though the ronin attacked him earlier.

A Loach Pot Rather Than A Domain

The Best Godfather in Japan

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 have herself murdered so Ooka Echizen will enter the manor and discover these great crimes.

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 a rival domain is trying to kill the ice to humiliate the first domain.

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 female doctor with a fist, however, believes the solution is more simple (and involves punching people).

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 his job.

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.

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 (??!) but Kano backed out.

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.

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 his main sake supplier, so now she needs to get money to save both their skins.

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.

Heroes in the Darkness

Angelic Neighborhood Bully

Thief Targeting the Nation

O-sai Flies!

Mount Fuji Saw The Wild Spear

The Shogun Permitted a Thief

Bullet Aiming At 8 Million Koku

Burn! Even If You Must Die

Embarrased To Recieve Flowers in Congratulation

Beast Battle! Master Tatsugoro

Duel! In the Stormy Castle

Cheers! Quack Doctor

The Will of the Raging Samurai

The Lanterns of Early Spring and Noon Emerge

I Saw a Rainbow in the Sea of Flames

Get the Vermin Out of the Castle!

I Don't Need a Mother!

The Girl From the Wolf Village

A Dohyori of Fire!

The Fake Shogun

The Eight Million Koku Porter

The Collector Who Collected the Villain's Head

Catastrophe! We Shouldn't Have Gotten Out of the Way!

Japan's Most Wanted Bride

Stop! Uncontrolled Official Carriage

What is a Shogun?

Watch Out! A Female Spy

The Man Who Gives Orders to the Shogun!

Snacks Delight on a Sunny Day

Youth of Edo, Stand Up!

Love Blossoms in Ubasuteyama!

The Proud and Naive Samurai

The Man Who Didn't Stop

I Saw the Real One! The Hayabusa Brat

Beware of the Quick Bucks

The Man Who Died and Flourished

Courage in the Face of Injustice

Thief Training

The Fox Woman Cries, the Banner of Empathy

The Princess Take - Tears from a Wedding Procession

The Flourishing of the Female Bushido

The Sad Song of the South

The New Boss! - Osai, of the Fire Extinguisher

The One Who Stood Out After Being at Risk of Drowning

Floating Lanterns That Mark a New Beginning in a Man's Life

Love Sold for 20,000 Ryu

The Trap in the Wolf Village

Melancholy Ninja Love

Dad, You Used to Be Someone

My Childhood Friend is an Oku Woman

There was a Bullet in the Clam Chowder!

Run! The Shogun's Horse!

Listen! The Chronicles of the Old Man and the Young Master

A Silly Dance in an Oily Hell

Duel on the Steam of Hell

The Woman Who Bet on the Mountain of Fire

Edo's Female Chief

Hakone's Melancholic Drizzle

The One Who Flirted Was to Blame

The Wild Spear Everyone Fears

The Bandit Harusame's Mother

Munenryu Shintoism and Confucianism According to the Hayashi Clan

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 should not have. Yoshimune learns they were raising a bunch of orphans in an awful shack with their scammed money, and decides he must avenge the dead criminal.

One Life For One Isshou of Shochu

The Silent Man's Divorce Letter

Ah! Justice Has Tears!

Megumi Clan's Love Bridge

Japan's Number One Little Thief

Tops Spinning Beneath a False Union

The White Waves That Shame the Flowers

Sado, the Shining Yellow

The Shogun, the Horse Thief, and the Brat

When a Man Sparks

The Love That Blooms Inside a Coffin

I Don't Want to Be the Shogun's Bride

Jongara with a Munen-Ryu Kid

The Cursed Box of 1000 Ryos

Hell's Bells Ring at 6.00 p.m

Rest in Peace, Onaka - The Flowing Lanterns

The Flowers That Fall Without Waiting for Spring

The One Who Smiled in the End

The Blooming Ginseng Flower That the Firefighter's Matoi Made Flourish

The Cowardly Samurai Who Made a Demon Woman Cry

Break the Chains of the Heart With Human Kindness

Whose Ungrateful Son is it

Promise of the Bell the Girl With Bangs and a Sword

The Decisive Duel of the Lantern Samurai

Legitimate Marital Fight

Clear Sky - The Hungry Lancer

The Duel! Blood in the Fuefuki River of Koshu

Burning Tears of the Traitor

The Flower in the Shadow That Made a Man Bloom

Waves of the Seto Maiden

Onomichi - Sunset of Revenge

The Million Kokus Dependent

The Bond of Hatred Between Father and Daughter

The Morning When Demons Wept

The Bet For the Dance Fan in the Sumo Ring

The Samurai Tanuki Performs a Great Feat

The Man Who Steals While Preaching

Oath of Brothers

The One Who Eats From the Table and the One Who Doesn't

The Night Flower That Blooms Once

The Man Who Danced in the Shadows

The Man Who Danced in the Shadows

The Love Story of a Man and His Taiko Drum

Sorry, Shogun! The Change of a Monk

Call of the Storm! The Bride From Megumi

The Heart of a Mother That Made Demons Cry

The Number One Rain Man in Japan

Cold Wind of Yoshiwara, Tears of a Woman

Laughter and Tears, The Dramatic Life of the People of Kawachi

The First Snow is the Make-Up of the Dead of a Sad Woman

The Poor and Nameless Grass

The Fragrance of the Sea, Tastes Like Mama

Why Sadness in Sharing an Umbrella?

A Remora That is More Frightening Than a Pufferfish

Sadness. Fallen Flowers of Those Who Stay

The Villain Who Laughed Last

Laughter and Tears, Three Girls From Edo

The Greatest Achievement of a Drunken Jitte

The Tale of the Fame of the Fool Kanpachi

The Flower That Disappeared in an Avalanche

Farewell Flower, Night Gust

Spring Has Come Again! Spouses' Kanzashi

You're a Child. Don't Cry, Torokichi!

The Farewell of the 808 Towns