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Season 1 • Episode 44 • Fresh Blood on the Bestowed Sword
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Abarenbo Shogun Season 1, Episode 44: Fresh Blood on the Bestowed Sword
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207 episodesThe 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.
45 min
The Remarkable Charlatan
Ogyu Shosen is called a quack doctor, but Yoshimune thinks he should be made surgeon-general.
45 min
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.
45 min
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).
45 min
Spring in the O'oku
45 min
The Splendid Potato Samurai
45 min
The Man of River Styx
45 min
The Befouled Truncheon
45 min
The Chivalrous Thief
45 min
The Blossoming Meyasubako
45 min
The Finest Kiyari Song
45 min
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.
45 min
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.
45 min
The Golden Crow Charms
Fireman Genzo wins the lottery, but is then reported to the police for having a forged ticket.
45 min
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.
45 min
Showdown at Beautiful Yoshiwara
45 min
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!
45 min
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.
45 min
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.
45 min
Iris and Sympathy
45 min
Fireman's Standard was Watching
45 min
Friendships Support the World
45 min
Rage of the Fishmonger
45 min
The Dreadful Shichi-ri Messengers
45 min
Heavens! Great Trouble in Edo
45 min
The Drunken Man Who was Promoted
45 min
The Woman Who Challenged the Yagyu Family
45 min
A Flower Blooms in the Dark
45 min
The Goofiest Pickpocket in Edo
45 min
The Misjudged Betrayer
45 min
The Woman Who Disappeared from the Hunting Ground
45 min
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...
45 min
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...
45 min
The Women Who Dance in a Tempest
45 min
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...
45 min
The Deceiving Mole Under a Woman's Eye
45 min
Feel Her Heart
45 min
The Woman Who Challenged Her Master
45 min
A Sweet Snare from RyuKyu
45 min
Go! The Prodogy of the Commoners
45 min
Hara-Kiri! The Drunkard Magistrate
45 min
A Hot Man and a Brazen Hussy
45 min
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.
45 min
Fresh Blood on the Bestowed Sword
45 min
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...
45 min
A Grand New Year's Gift
45 min
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.
45 min
Hell in the Heavenly Bath
45 min
The Pen is Mightier Than The Sword
45 min
The Great Packed Lunch of a Woman
45 min
The Bride of the Fish Market
45 min
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...
45 min
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.
45 min
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.
45 min
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.
45 min
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.
45 min
Eliminations of Black Sheep
45 min
The Best Cherry Blossom Dance in Edo
45 min
The Firemen's Standard is the Firemen's Heart and Soul
45 min
Only the Sun Knew
45 min
The Perished Love in a Spring Storm
45 min
A Single Flower in the Dark
45 min
The Fallen Flower in the Game of Chance
45 min
Holding a Fire Standard for a Spear
45 min
The Troublesome Tea Urn Trip
45 min
Daruma Smiled on Joshu Road
45 min
Commissioner Ooka Committs Hara-Kiri!
45 min
A Bogus Complaint
45 min
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.
45 min
A Loach Pot Rather Than A Domain
45 min
The Best Godfather in Japan
45 min
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.
45 min
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.
45 min
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).
45 min
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.
45 min
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.
45 min
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.
45 min
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.
45 min
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.
45 min
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.
45 min
Heroes in the Darkness
45 min
Angelic Neighborhood Bully
45 min
Thief Targeting the Nation
45 min
O-sai Flies!
45 min
Mount Fuji Saw The Wild Spear
45 min
The Shogun Permitted a Thief
45 min
Bullet Aiming At 8 Million Koku
45 min
Burn! Even If You Must Die
45 min
Embarrased To Recieve Flowers in Congratulation
45 min
Beast Battle! Master Tatsugoro
45 min
Duel! In the Stormy Castle
45 min
Cheers! Quack Doctor
45 min
The Will of the Raging Samurai
45 min
The Lanterns of Early Spring and Noon Emerge
45 min
I Saw a Rainbow in the Sea of Flames
45 min
Get the Vermin Out of the Castle!
45 min
I Don't Need a Mother!
45 min
The Girl From the Wolf Village
45 min
A Dohyori of Fire!
45 min
The Fake Shogun
45 min
The Eight Million Koku Porter
45 min
The Collector Who Collected the Villain's Head
45 min
Catastrophe! We Shouldn't Have Gotten Out of the Way!
45 min
Japan's Most Wanted Bride
45 min
Stop! Uncontrolled Official Carriage
45 min
What is a Shogun?
45 min
Watch Out! A Female Spy
45 min
The Man Who Gives Orders to the Shogun!
45 min
Snacks Delight on a Sunny Day
45 min
Youth of Edo, Stand Up!
45 min
Love Blossoms in Ubasuteyama!
45 min
The Proud and Naive Samurai
45 min
The Man Who Didn't Stop
45 min
I Saw the Real One! The Hayabusa Brat
45 min
Beware of the Quick Bucks
45 min
The Man Who Died and Flourished
45 min
Courage in the Face of Injustice
45 min
Thief Training
45 min
The Fox Woman Cries, the Banner of Empathy
45 min
The Princess Take - Tears from a Wedding Procession
45 min
The Flourishing of the Female Bushido
45 min
The Sad Song of the South
45 min
The New Boss! - Osai, of the Fire Extinguisher
45 min
The One Who Stood Out After Being at Risk of Drowning
45 min
Floating Lanterns That Mark a New Beginning in a Man's Life
45 min
Love Sold for 20,000 Ryu
45 min
The Trap in the Wolf Village
45 min
Melancholy Ninja Love
45 min
Dad, You Used to Be Someone
45 min
My Childhood Friend is an Oku Woman
45 min
There was a Bullet in the Clam Chowder!
45 min
Run! The Shogun's Horse!
45 min
Listen! The Chronicles of the Old Man and the Young Master
45 min
A Silly Dance in an Oily Hell
45 min
Duel on the Steam of Hell
45 min
The Woman Who Bet on the Mountain of Fire
45 min
Edo's Female Chief
45 min
Hakone's Melancholic Drizzle
45 min
The One Who Flirted Was to Blame
45 min
The Wild Spear Everyone Fears
45 min
The Bandit Harusame's Mother
45 min
Munenryu Shintoism and Confucianism According to the Hayashi Clan
45 min
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.
45 min
One Life For One Isshou of Shochu
45 min
The Silent Man's Divorce Letter
45 min
Ah! Justice Has Tears!
45 min
Megumi Clan's Love Bridge
45 min
Japan's Number One Little Thief
45 min
Tops Spinning Beneath a False Union
45 min
The White Waves That Shame the Flowers
45 min
Sado, the Shining Yellow
45 min
The Shogun, the Horse Thief, and the Brat
45 min
When a Man Sparks
45 min
The Love That Blooms Inside a Coffin
45 min
I Don't Want to Be the Shogun's Bride
45 min
Jongara with a Munen-Ryu Kid
45 min
The Cursed Box of 1000 Ryos
45 min
Hell's Bells Ring at 6.00 p.m
45 min
Rest in Peace, Onaka - The Flowing Lanterns
45 min
The Flowers That Fall Without Waiting for Spring
45 min
The One Who Smiled in the End
45 min
The Blooming Ginseng Flower That the Firefighter's Matoi Made Flourish
45 min
The Cowardly Samurai Who Made a Demon Woman Cry
45 min
Break the Chains of the Heart With Human Kindness
45 min
Whose Ungrateful Son is it
45 min
Promise of the Bell the Girl With Bangs and a Sword
45 min
The Decisive Duel of the Lantern Samurai
45 min
Legitimate Marital Fight
45 min
Clear Sky - The Hungry Lancer
45 min
The Duel! Blood in the Fuefuki River of Koshu
45 min
Burning Tears of the Traitor
45 min
The Flower in the Shadow That Made a Man Bloom
45 min
Waves of the Seto Maiden
45 min
Onomichi - Sunset of Revenge
45 min
The Million Kokus Dependent
45 min
The Bond of Hatred Between Father and Daughter
45 min
The Morning When Demons Wept
45 min
The Bet For the Dance Fan in the Sumo Ring
45 min
The Samurai Tanuki Performs a Great Feat
45 min
The Man Who Steals While Preaching
45 min
Oath of Brothers
45 min
The One Who Eats From the Table and the One Who Doesn't
45 min
The Night Flower That Blooms Once
45 min
The Man Who Danced in the Shadows
45 min
The Man Who Danced in the Shadows
45 min
The Love Story of a Man and His Taiko Drum
45 min
Sorry, Shogun! The Change of a Monk
45 min
Call of the Storm! The Bride From Megumi
45 min
The Heart of a Mother That Made Demons Cry
45 min
The Number One Rain Man in Japan
45 min
Cold Wind of Yoshiwara, Tears of a Woman
45 min
Laughter and Tears, The Dramatic Life of the People of Kawachi
45 min
The First Snow is the Make-Up of the Dead of a Sad Woman
45 min
The Poor and Nameless Grass
45 min
The Fragrance of the Sea, Tastes Like Mama
45 min
Why Sadness in Sharing an Umbrella?
45 min
A Remora That is More Frightening Than a Pufferfish
45 min
Sadness. Fallen Flowers of Those Who Stay
45 min
The Villain Who Laughed Last
45 min
Laughter and Tears, Three Girls From Edo
45 min
The Greatest Achievement of a Drunken Jitte
45 min
The Tale of the Fame of the Fool Kanpachi
45 min
The Flower That Disappeared in an Avalanche
45 min
Farewell Flower, Night Gust
45 min
Spring Has Come Again! Spouses' Kanzashi
45 min
You're a Child. Don't Cry, Torokichi!
45 min
The Farewell of the 808 Towns
45 min