Ogami Itto is a master swordsman who holds a position of high power in the Tokugawa Shogunate. Highly trusted by the Shogun, he serves as the official decapitator, assisting lords and samurai who have been ordered by the Shogun to commit seppuku. One day, Itto’s wife and members of his household are brutally murdered by a clan seeking to avenge their lord’s execution, which had been carried out by Itto. In the wake of the attack, two items are left in Itto’s home: his unhurt infant son, Daigoro, and a symbol meant to signify Itto’s betrayal of the Shogun. Disgraced by the false symbol, Itto is labeled a traitor and forced to forfeit his position. He becomes a ronin, wandering the country with his son, searching for the men who killed his wife, seeking to clear his name and avenge her death.
My son and my sword for hire
Birds have wings, beast have fangs / fangs of the wolf
Ikkou-bashi bridge
The assassin’s road / highway of assassins
Daigoro and omatsu / the lowly maid
Deflowering / amya and anema
The guns of sakai / the sakai rifle
The shield and the castle / the castle wall attack
The endless six paths / six roads to infinity
Baby cart on the river styx
The deer hunters
Ochiyo's boat
The mysterious pickpocket / no betrayal
North to south, west to east
The night of the fang
Cloud dragon, wind tiger
Asaemon the beheader / executioner asaemon
A meager, peaceful life / half mat, one mat, two and a half go of rice
The 8 gate attack formation
The chrysanthemum inn
Mercenary swordsmen / the crossing guard
Bekinoji's tragedy
Thread of tears
Concealed letter of the yagyu / the yagyu letter
Daigoro's song
Drifting shadow
The hojiro yagyu / blackfaces of death
A dark southern wind
The yagyu five-pronged technique / yagyu five-prong attack
Waiting in the rain / the late autumn rain
Mid-winter arrival
The camouflage kid / the decoy
If the wolf comes / the wolf cometh
Japanese silver-leaf
A woman's castle
The day to drive away evil spirits / exorcism day
Whistle of the winter wind
The bell ringer, genshichi tsuji
The red cat beckons
The organization of terror / footman's demise
Breaking heated stones / destroy hot stones
Seven-ri runner
Mamesho the policeman / the cop
Drifting lanterns
The winter dream / beginning of winter
The female inspector
The women of sodeshi / resolute women
The zanbato of the suio school / suio style zanbato blade
The funeral before death / the living dead
The sick star
The thirteen strings
Sayaka
The wolf extinguishers seek immortality
Wet nurse parasol
A tomorrow that shall never come / no tomorrow
Silken cloud
A mother's taste
Your life is mine
The five ninja flowers / five sisters of death
Season of death
The coarse man and the adulteress / unfortunate pair
Guide along the line between life and death / ominous path
Daigoro and the flower of happiness
Buei school of gunnery / the hand canon
The moon in the depths of the heart / the moon of desire
Omens good and bad
The monstrous abe
Wildfire
Cloaked in a scent
The father, the son, and the grenade / the roaring thunder
Light on the river of blood
The day of the awaited duel / the showdown
Impending death
Fathers and sons
Battle in the shadows
The guardian
The waves and the flutes
Swordsmanship
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