Abarenbo 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.

Jan 7, 1978

The Remarkable Charlatan

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

Jan 14, 1978

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.

Jan 21, 1978

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).

Jan 28, 1978

Spring in the O'oku

Feb 4, 1978

The Splendid Potato Samurai

Feb 11, 1978

The Man of River Styx

Feb 25, 1978

The Befouled Truncheon

Mar 4, 1978

The Chivalrous Thief

Mar 11, 1978

The Blossoming Meyasubako

Mar 18, 1978

The Finest Kiyari Song

Mar 25, 1978

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.

Apr 1, 1978

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.

Apr 8, 1978

The Golden Crow Charms

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

Apr 15, 1978

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.

Apr 22, 1978

Showdown at Beautiful Yoshiwara

Apr 29, 1978

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!

May 6, 1978

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.

May 13, 1978

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.

May 20, 1978

Iris and Sympathy

May 27, 1978

Fireman's Standard was Watching

Jun 3, 1978

Friendships Support the World

Jun 17, 1978

Rage of the Fishmonger

Jun 24, 1978

The Dreadful Shichi-ri Messengers

Jul 1, 1978

Heavens! Great Trouble in Edo

Jul 8, 1978

The Drunken Man Who was Promoted

Jul 15, 1978

The Woman Who Challenged the Yagyu Family

Jul 22, 1978

A Flower Blooms in the Dark

Jul 29, 1978

The Goofiest Pickpocket in Edo

Aug 19, 1978

The Misjudged Betrayer

Sep 9, 1978

The Woman Who Disappeared from the Hunting Ground

Sep 16, 1978

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...

Sep 23, 1978

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...

Sep 30, 1978

The Women Who Dance in a Tempest

Oct 7, 1978

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...

Oct 14, 1978

The Deceiving Mole Under a Woman's Eye

Oct 21, 1978

Feel Her Heart

Oct 28, 1978

The Woman Who Challenged Her Master

Nov 4, 1978

A Sweet Snare from RyuKyu

Nov 11, 1978

Go! The Prodogy of the Commoners

Nov 18, 1978

Hara-Kiri! The Drunkard Magistrate

Dec 2, 1978

A Hot Man and a Brazen Hussy

Dec 9, 1978

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.

Dec 16, 1978

Fresh Blood on the Bestowed Sword

Dec 23, 1978

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...

Dec 30, 1978

A Grand New Year's Gift

Jan 6, 1979

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.

Jan 13, 1979

Hell in the Heavenly Bath

Jan 20, 1979

The Pen is Mightier Than The Sword

Jan 27, 1979

The Great Packed Lunch of a Woman

Feb 3, 1979

The Bride of the Fish Market

Feb 10, 1979

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...

Feb 17, 1979

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.

Feb 24, 1979

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.

Mar 3, 1979

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.

Mar 10, 1979

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.

Mar 17, 1979

Eliminations of Black Sheep

Mar 24, 1979

The Best Cherry Blossom Dance in Edo

Mar 31, 1979

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

Apr 7, 1979

Only the Sun Knew

Apr 14, 1979

The Perished Love in a Spring Storm

Apr 21, 1979

A Single Flower in the Dark

Apr 28, 1979

The Fallen Flower in the Game of Chance

May 5, 1979

Holding a Fire Standard for a Spear

May 12, 1979

The Troublesome Tea Urn Trip

May 19, 1979

Daruma Smiled on Joshu Road

May 26, 1979

Commissioner Ooka Committs Hara-Kiri!

Jun 2, 1979

A Bogus Complaint

Jun 9, 1979

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.

Jun 16, 1979

A Loach Pot Rather Than A Domain

Jun 23, 1979

The Best Godfather in Japan

Jun 30, 1979

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.

Jul 7, 1979

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.

Jul 14, 1979

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).

Jul 21, 1979

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.

Aug 11, 1979

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.

Aug 18, 1979

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.

Aug 25, 1979

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.

Sep 8, 1979

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.

Sep 15, 1979

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.

Sep 22, 1979

Heroes in the Darkness

Sep 29, 1979

Angelic Neighborhood Bully

Oct 13, 1979

Thief Targeting the Nation

Oct 20, 1979

O-sai Flies!

Oct 27, 1979

Mount Fuji Saw The Wild Spear

Nov 3, 1979

The Shogun Permitted a Thief

Nov 10, 1979

Bullet Aiming At 8 Million Koku

Nov 17, 1979

Burn! Even If You Must Die

Nov 24, 1979

Embarrased To Recieve Flowers in Congratulation

Dec 1, 1979

Beast Battle! Master Tatsugoro

Dec 8, 1979

Duel! In the Stormy Castle

Dec 15, 1979

Cheers! Quack Doctor

Dec 22, 1979

The Will of the Raging Samurai

Dec 29, 1979

The Lanterns of Early Spring and Noon Emerge

Jan 5, 1980

I Saw a Rainbow in the Sea of Flames

Jan 12, 1980

Get the Vermin Out of the Castle!

Jan 19, 1980

I Don't Need a Mother!

Jan 26, 1980

The Girl From the Wolf Village

Feb 2, 1980

A Dohyori of Fire!

Feb 9, 1980

The Fake Shogun

Feb 16, 1980

The Eight Million Koku Porter

Feb 23, 1980

The Collector Who Collected the Villain's Head

Mar 1, 1980

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

Mar 8, 1980

Japan's Most Wanted Bride

Mar 22, 1980

Stop! Uncontrolled Official Carriage

Mar 29, 1980

What is a Shogun?

Apr 5, 1980

Watch Out! A Female Spy

Apr 12, 1980

The Man Who Gives Orders to the Shogun!

Apr 19, 1980

Snacks Delight on a Sunny Day

Apr 26, 1980

Youth of Edo, Stand Up!

May 3, 1980

Love Blossoms in Ubasuteyama!

May 10, 1980

The Proud and Naive Samurai

May 17, 1980

The Man Who Didn't Stop

May 24, 1980

I Saw the Real One! The Hayabusa Brat

May 31, 1980

Beware of the Quick Bucks

Jun 7, 1980

The Man Who Died and Flourished

Jun 14, 1980

Courage in the Face of Injustice

Jun 21, 1980

Thief Training

Jun 28, 1980

The Fox Woman Cries, the Banner of Empathy

Jul 5, 1980

The Princess Take - Tears from a Wedding Procession

Jul 12, 1980

The Flourishing of the Female Bushido

Jul 19, 1980

The Sad Song of the South

Jul 26, 1980

The New Boss! - Osai, of the Fire Extinguisher

Aug 2, 1980

The One Who Stood Out After Being at Risk of Drowning

Aug 9, 1980

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

Aug 16, 1980

Love Sold for 20,000 Ryu

Aug 23, 1980

The Trap in the Wolf Village

Aug 30, 1980

Melancholy Ninja Love

Sep 6, 1980

Dad, You Used to Be Someone

Sep 13, 1980

My Childhood Friend is an Oku Woman

Sep 27, 1980

There was a Bullet in the Clam Chowder!

Oct 4, 1980

Run! The Shogun's Horse!

Oct 11, 1980

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

Oct 18, 1980

A Silly Dance in an Oily Hell

Oct 25, 1980

Duel on the Steam of Hell

Nov 1, 1980

The Woman Who Bet on the Mountain of Fire

Nov 8, 1980

Edo's Female Chief

Nov 15, 1980

Hakone's Melancholic Drizzle

Nov 22, 1980

The One Who Flirted Was to Blame

Nov 29, 1980

The Wild Spear Everyone Fears

Dec 6, 1980

The Bandit Harusame's Mother

Dec 20, 1980

Munenryu Shintoism and Confucianism According to the Hayashi Clan

Dec 27, 1980

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.

Jan 10, 1981

One Life For One Isshou of Shochu

Jan 17, 1981

The Silent Man's Divorce Letter

Jan 24, 1981

Ah! Justice Has Tears!

Jan 31, 1981

Megumi Clan's Love Bridge

Feb 7, 1981

Japan's Number One Little Thief

Feb 14, 1981

Tops Spinning Beneath a False Union

Feb 21, 1981

The White Waves That Shame the Flowers

Feb 28, 1981

Sado, the Shining Yellow

Mar 7, 1981

The Shogun, the Horse Thief, and the Brat

Mar 14, 1981

When a Man Sparks

Mar 21, 1981

The Love That Blooms Inside a Coffin

Mar 28, 1981

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

Apr 11, 1981

Jongara with a Munen-Ryu Kid

Apr 18, 1981

The Cursed Box of 1000 Ryos

Apr 25, 1981

Hell's Bells Ring at 6.00 p.m

May 2, 1981

Rest in Peace, Onaka - The Flowing Lanterns

May 9, 1981

The Flowers That Fall Without Waiting for Spring

May 16, 1981

The One Who Smiled in the End

May 23, 1981

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

May 30, 1981

The Cowardly Samurai Who Made a Demon Woman Cry

Jun 6, 1981

Break the Chains of the Heart With Human Kindness

Jun 13, 1981

Whose Ungrateful Son is it

Jun 20, 1981

Promise of the Bell the Girl With Bangs and a Sword

Jun 27, 1981

The Decisive Duel of the Lantern Samurai

Jul 4, 1981

Legitimate Marital Fight

Jul 11, 1981

Clear Sky - The Hungry Lancer

Jul 18, 1981

The Duel! Blood in the Fuefuki River of Koshu

Aug 1, 1981

Burning Tears of the Traitor

Aug 8, 1981

The Flower in the Shadow That Made a Man Bloom

Aug 15, 1981

Waves of the Seto Maiden

Aug 22, 1981

Onomichi - Sunset of Revenge

Aug 29, 1981

The Million Kokus Dependent

Sep 5, 1981

The Bond of Hatred Between Father and Daughter

Sep 12, 1981

The Morning When Demons Wept

Sep 19, 1981

The Bet For the Dance Fan in the Sumo Ring

Sep 26, 1981

The Samurai Tanuki Performs a Great Feat

Oct 3, 1981

The Man Who Steals While Preaching

Oct 10, 1981

Oath of Brothers

Oct 17, 1981

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

Oct 24, 1981

The Night Flower That Blooms Once

Oct 31, 1981

The Man Who Danced in the Shadows

Nov 7, 1981

The Man Who Danced in the Shadows

Nov 14, 1981

The Love Story of a Man and His Taiko Drum

Nov 21, 1981

Sorry, Shogun! The Change of a Monk

Nov 28, 1981

Call of the Storm! The Bride From Megumi

Dec 5, 1981

The Heart of a Mother That Made Demons Cry

Dec 12, 1981

The Number One Rain Man in Japan

Dec 19, 1981

Cold Wind of Yoshiwara, Tears of a Woman

Dec 26, 1981

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

Jan 9, 1982

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

Jan 16, 1982

The Poor and Nameless Grass

Jan 23, 1982

The Fragrance of the Sea, Tastes Like Mama

Jan 30, 1982

Why Sadness in Sharing an Umbrella?

Feb 6, 1982

A Remora That is More Frightening Than a Pufferfish

Feb 13, 1982

Sadness. Fallen Flowers of Those Who Stay

Feb 20, 1982

The Villain Who Laughed Last

Feb 27, 1982

Laughter and Tears, Three Girls From Edo

Mar 6, 1982

The Greatest Achievement of a Drunken Jitte

Mar 13, 1982

The Tale of the Fame of the Fool Kanpachi

Mar 20, 1982

The Flower That Disappeared in an Avalanche

Mar 27, 1982

Farewell Flower, Night Gust

Apr 10, 1982

Spring Has Come Again! Spouses' Kanzashi

Apr 17, 1982

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

Apr 24, 1982

The Farewell of the 808 Towns

May 1, 1982