Season 1
207 episodes · Jan 7, 1978
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- S1E1
The Star of Edo
Jan 7, 197845mRoughhousing 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.
- S1E2
The Remarkable Charlatan
Jan 14, 197845mOgyu Shosen is called a quack doctor, but Yoshimune thinks he should be made surgeon-general.
- S1E3
The First Fireman Banner
Jan 21, 197845mHatamoto firemen are causing a nuisance and thieving in town, so fiery Tatsugoro and his gang of construction workers aim to take them down.
- S1E4
Mother From Long Past
Jan 28, 197845mA 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).
- S1E12
The Amazing Kishu Woman
Apr 1, 197845mYoshimune's old friend from Kishu, a female lumberjack, comes to Edo to engage in lumber trade, but gets in trouble.
- S1E13
The Perilous Souvenir Gift
Apr 8, 197845mYoshimune'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.
- S1E14
The Golden Crow Charms
Apr 15, 197845mFireman Genzo wins the lottery, but is then reported to the police for having a forged ticket.
- S1E15
The Quack Who Calls Forth Spring
Apr 22, 197845mEven 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.
- S1E17
Love and the Guardian Deity
May 6, 197845mSatsuma 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!
- S1E18
The Beat of a Taiko Drum in Edo
May 13, 197845mYoshimune 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.
- S1E19
A Ballad of a Fireman
May 20, 197845mTatsugoro'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.
- S1E32
The Best Announcement of the Winner in Japan
Sep 23, 197845mRyuko 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...
- S1E33
A Daimyo's Famed Shiruko Restaurant
Sep 30, 197845mA 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...
- S1E35
The Bride with an Explosive
Oct 14, 197845mA 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...
- S1E43
The Shogun's Secret Ninja
Dec 16, 197845mFemale 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.
- S1E45
The Counterfeit Coins and the Candy Man
Dec 30, 197845mA 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...
- S1E47
The Female Doctor with a Fist
Jan 13, 197945mEdo is invigorated by an unusually aggressive and outspoken female doctor, Oshino, who physically beats her patients if they do not obey her.
- S1E52
The Downfall of Ooka Echizen No Kami
Feb 17, 197945mA 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...
- S1E53
The Best Dry Sake for Mother and Son
Feb 24, 197945mClannish 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.
- S1E54
The Female Doctor Who Loves Money
Mar 3, 197945mOshino, 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.
- S1E55
This Small Incident Occured Ten Years Ago
Mar 10, 197945mShoheiko, 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.
- S1E56
The Man Who Died in the Light Snowfalls in Spring
Mar 17, 197945mRyuko'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.
- S1E69
Very Proud of the Celebrated Sword
Jun 16, 197945mAn 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.
- S1E72
Revenge Colored with Safflowers
Jul 7, 197945mA 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.
- S1E73
A Man Passionate About the Snow on Mount Fuji
Jul 14, 197945mA 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.
- S1E74
Kick the Edo Illness Out!
Jul 21, 197945mA 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).
- S1E75
Gorozaemon Kano's Disappearance
Aug 11, 197945mKano 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.
- S1E76
Suspicion Begets Idle Fears
Aug 18, 197945mA lord lets 3 master ghost actresses into his house as maids, somehow doesn't connect this with supernatural happenings in his house.
- S1E77
The Bride That Came From Kishu
Aug 25, 197945mKikue, 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.
- S1E78
A Man Hunting the Whole Country
Sep 8, 197945mThe 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.
- S1E79
Peerless! The Taste of Momma
Sep 15, 197945mMatsumae 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.
- S1E80
The Direct Retainers of the Shogun Run Wild
Sep 22, 197945mHatamotos, 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.
- S1E143
I Am the Most Unpleasant Person in the World
Jan 10, 198145mShin-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.