Seasons & episodes
12 seasons · 834 episodes
Episode 01
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.
Episode 02
The Remarkable Charlatan
Ogyu Shosen is called a quack doctor, but Yoshimune thinks he should be made surgeon-general.
Episode 03
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.
Episode 04
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).
Episode 05
Spring in the O'oku
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Episode 06
The Splendid Potato Samurai
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Episode 07
The Man of River Styx
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Episode 08
The Befouled Truncheon
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Episode 09
The Chivalrous Thief
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Episode 10
The Blossoming Meyasubako
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Episode 11
The Finest Kiyari Song
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Episode 12
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.
Episode 13
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.
Episode 14
The Golden Crow Charms
Fireman Genzo wins the lottery, but is then reported to the police for having a forged ticket.
Episode 15
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.
Episode 16
Showdown at Beautiful Yoshiwara
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Episode 17
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!
Episode 18
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.
Episode 19
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.
Episode 20
Iris and Sympathy
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Episode 21
Fireman's Standard was Watching
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Episode 22
Friendships Support the World
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Episode 23
Rage of the Fishmonger
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Episode 24
The Dreadful Shichi-ri Messengers
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Episode 25
Heavens! Great Trouble in Edo
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Episode 26
The Drunken Man Who was Promoted
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Episode 27
The Woman Who Challenged the Yagyu Family
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Episode 28
A Flower Blooms in the Dark
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Episode 29
The Goofiest Pickpocket in Edo
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Episode 30
The Misjudged Betrayer
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Episode 31
The Woman Who Disappeared from the Hunting Ground
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Episode 32
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...
Episode 33
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...
Episode 34
The Women Who Dance in a Tempest
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Episode 35
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...
Episode 36
The Deceiving Mole Under a Woman's Eye
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Episode 37
Feel Her Heart
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Episode 38
The Woman Who Challenged Her Master
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Episode 39
A Sweet Snare from RyuKyu
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Episode 40
Go! The Prodogy of the Commoners
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Episode 41
Hara-Kiri! The Drunkard Magistrate
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Episode 42
A Hot Man and a Brazen Hussy
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Episode 43
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.
Episode 44
Fresh Blood on the Bestowed Sword
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Episode 45
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...
Episode 46
A Grand New Year's Gift
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Episode 47
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.
Episode 48
Hell in the Heavenly Bath
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Episode 49
The Pen is Mightier Than The Sword
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Episode 50
The Great Packed Lunch of a Woman
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Episode 51
The Bride of the Fish Market
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Episode 52
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...
Episode 53
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.
Episode 54
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.
Episode 55
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.
Episode 56
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.
Episode 57
Eliminations of Black Sheep
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Episode 58
The Best Cherry Blossom Dance in Edo
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Episode 59
The Firemen's Standard is the Firemen's Heart and Soul
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Episode 60
Only the Sun Knew
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Episode 61
The Perished Love in a Spring Storm
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Episode 62
A Single Flower in the Dark
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Episode 63
The Fallen Flower in the Game of Chance
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Episode 64
Holding a Fire Standard for a Spear
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Episode 65
The Troublesome Tea Urn Trip
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Episode 66
Daruma Smiled on Joshu Road
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Episode 67
Commissioner Ooka Committs Hara-Kiri!
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Episode 68
A Bogus Complaint
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Episode 69
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.
Episode 70
A Loach Pot Rather Than A Domain
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Episode 71
The Best Godfather in Japan
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Episode 72
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.
Episode 73
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.
Episode 74
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).
Episode 75
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.
Episode 76
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.
Episode 77
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.
Episode 78
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.
Episode 79
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.
Episode 80
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.
Episode 81
Heroes in the Darkness
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Episode 82
Angelic Neighborhood Bully
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Episode 83
Thief Targeting the Nation
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Episode 84
O-sai Flies!
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Episode 85
Mount Fuji Saw The Wild Spear
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Episode 86
The Shogun Permitted a Thief
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Episode 87
Bullet Aiming At 8 Million Koku
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Episode 88
Burn! Even If You Must Die
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Episode 89
Embarrased To Recieve Flowers in Congratulation
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Episode 90
Beast Battle! Master Tatsugoro
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Episode 91
Duel! In the Stormy Castle
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Episode 92
Cheers! Quack Doctor
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Episode 93
The Will of the Raging Samurai
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Episode 94
The Lanterns of Early Spring and Noon Emerge
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Episode 95
I Saw a Rainbow in the Sea of Flames
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Episode 96
Get the Vermin Out of the Castle!
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Episode 97
I Don't Need a Mother!
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Episode 98
The Girl From the Wolf Village
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Episode 99
A Dohyori of Fire!
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Episode 100
The Fake Shogun
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Episode 101
The Eight Million Koku Porter
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Episode 102
The Collector Who Collected the Villain's Head
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Episode 103
Catastrophe! We Shouldn't Have Gotten Out of the Way!
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Episode 104
Japan's Most Wanted Bride
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Episode 105
Stop! Uncontrolled Official Carriage
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Episode 106
What is a Shogun?
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Episode 107
Watch Out! A Female Spy
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Episode 108
The Man Who Gives Orders to the Shogun!
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Episode 109
Snacks Delight on a Sunny Day
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Episode 110
Youth of Edo, Stand Up!
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Episode 111
Love Blossoms in Ubasuteyama!
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Episode 112
The Proud and Naive Samurai
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Episode 113
The Man Who Didn't Stop
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Episode 114
I Saw the Real One! The Hayabusa Brat
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Episode 115
Beware of the Quick Bucks
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Episode 116
The Man Who Died and Flourished
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Episode 117
Courage in the Face of Injustice
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Episode 118
Thief Training
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Episode 119
The Fox Woman Cries, the Banner of Empathy
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Episode 120
The Princess Take - Tears from a Wedding Procession
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Episode 121
The Flourishing of the Female Bushido
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Episode 122
The Sad Song of the South
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Episode 123
The New Boss! - Osai, of the Fire Extinguisher
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Episode 124
The One Who Stood Out After Being at Risk of Drowning
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Episode 125
Floating Lanterns That Mark a New Beginning in a Man's Life
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Episode 126
Love Sold for 20,000 Ryu
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Episode 127
The Trap in the Wolf Village
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Episode 128
Melancholy Ninja Love
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Episode 129
Dad, You Used to Be Someone
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Episode 130
My Childhood Friend is an Oku Woman
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Episode 131
There was a Bullet in the Clam Chowder!
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Episode 132
Run! The Shogun's Horse!
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Episode 133
Listen! The Chronicles of the Old Man and the Young Master
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Episode 134
A Silly Dance in an Oily Hell
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Episode 135
Duel on the Steam of Hell
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Episode 136
The Woman Who Bet on the Mountain of Fire
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Episode 137
Edo's Female Chief
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Episode 138
Hakone's Melancholic Drizzle
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Episode 139
The One Who Flirted Was to Blame
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Episode 140
The Wild Spear Everyone Fears
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Episode 141
The Bandit Harusame's Mother
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Episode 142
Munenryu Shintoism and Confucianism According to the Hayashi Clan
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Episode 143
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.
Episode 144
One Life For One Isshou of Shochu
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Episode 145
The Silent Man's Divorce Letter
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Episode 146
Ah! Justice Has Tears!
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Episode 147
Megumi Clan's Love Bridge
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Episode 148
Japan's Number One Little Thief
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Episode 149
Tops Spinning Beneath a False Union
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Episode 150
The White Waves That Shame the Flowers
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Episode 151
Sado, the Shining Yellow
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Episode 152
The Shogun, the Horse Thief, and the Brat
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Episode 153
When a Man Sparks
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Episode 154
The Love That Blooms Inside a Coffin
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Episode 155
I Don't Want to Be the Shogun's Bride
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Episode 156
Jongara with a Munen-Ryu Kid
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Episode 157
The Cursed Box of 1000 Ryos
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Episode 158
Hell's Bells Ring at 6.00 p.m
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Episode 159
Rest in Peace, Onaka - The Flowing Lanterns
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Episode 160
The Flowers That Fall Without Waiting for Spring
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Episode 161
The One Who Smiled in the End
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Episode 162
The Blooming Ginseng Flower That the Firefighter's Matoi Made Flourish
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Episode 163
The Cowardly Samurai Who Made a Demon Woman Cry
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Episode 164
Break the Chains of the Heart With Human Kindness
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Episode 165
Whose Ungrateful Son is it
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Episode 166
Promise of the Bell the Girl With Bangs and a Sword
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Episode 167
The Decisive Duel of the Lantern Samurai
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Episode 168
Legitimate Marital Fight
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Episode 169
Clear Sky - The Hungry Lancer
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Episode 170
The Duel! Blood in the Fuefuki River of Koshu
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Episode 171
Burning Tears of the Traitor
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Episode 172
The Flower in the Shadow That Made a Man Bloom
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Episode 173
Waves of the Seto Maiden
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Episode 174
Onomichi - Sunset of Revenge
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Episode 175
The Million Kokus Dependent
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Episode 176
The Bond of Hatred Between Father and Daughter
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Episode 177
The Morning When Demons Wept
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Episode 178
The Bet For the Dance Fan in the Sumo Ring
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Episode 179
The Samurai Tanuki Performs a Great Feat
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Episode 180
The Man Who Steals While Preaching
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Episode 181
Oath of Brothers
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Episode 182
The One Who Eats From the Table and the One Who Doesn't
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Episode 183
The Night Flower That Blooms Once
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Episode 184
The Man Who Danced in the Shadows
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Episode 185
The Man Who Danced in the Shadows
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Episode 186
The Love Story of a Man and His Taiko Drum
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Episode 187
Sorry, Shogun! The Change of a Monk
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Episode 188
Call of the Storm! The Bride From Megumi
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Episode 189
The Heart of a Mother That Made Demons Cry
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Episode 190
The Number One Rain Man in Japan
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Episode 191
Cold Wind of Yoshiwara, Tears of a Woman
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Episode 192
Laughter and Tears, The Dramatic Life of the People of Kawachi
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Episode 193
The First Snow is the Make-Up of the Dead of a Sad Woman
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Episode 194
The Poor and Nameless Grass
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Episode 195
The Fragrance of the Sea, Tastes Like Mama
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Episode 196
Why Sadness in Sharing an Umbrella?
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Episode 197
A Remora That is More Frightening Than a Pufferfish
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Episode 198
Sadness. Fallen Flowers of Those Who Stay
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Episode 199
The Villain Who Laughed Last
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Episode 200
Laughter and Tears, Three Girls From Edo
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Episode 201
The Greatest Achievement of a Drunken Jitte
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Episode 202
The Tale of the Fame of the Fool Kanpachi
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Episode 203
The Flower That Disappeared in an Avalanche
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Episode 204
Farewell Flower, Night Gust
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Episode 205
Spring Has Come Again! Spouses' Kanzashi
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Episode 206
You're a Child. Don't Cry, Torokichi!
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Episode 207
The Farewell of the 808 Towns
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