Abarenbo Shogun

1. 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.

Air Date : 1978-01-07

2. The Remarkable Charlatan

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

Air Date : 1978-01-14

3. 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.

Air Date : 1978-01-21

4. 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).

Air Date : 1978-01-28

5. Spring in the O'oku

Air Date : 1978-02-04

6. The Splendid Potato Samurai

Air Date : 1978-02-11

7. The Man of River Styx

Air Date : 1978-02-25

8. The Befouled Truncheon

Air Date : 1978-03-04

9. The Chivalrous Thief

Air Date : 1978-03-11

10. The Blossoming Meyasubako

Air Date : 1978-03-18

11. The Finest Kiyari Song

Air Date : 1978-03-25

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.

Air Date : 1978-04-01

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.

Air Date : 1978-04-08

14. The Golden Crow Charms

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

Air Date : 1978-04-15

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.

Air Date : 1978-04-22

16. Showdown at Beautiful Yoshiwara

Air Date : 1978-04-29

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!

Air Date : 1978-05-06

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.

Air Date : 1978-05-13

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.

Air Date : 1978-05-20

20. Iris and Sympathy

Air Date : 1978-05-27

21. Fireman's Standard was Watching

Air Date : 1978-06-03

22. Friendships Support the World

Air Date : 1978-06-17

23. Rage of the Fishmonger

Air Date : 1978-06-24

24. The Dreadful Shichi-ri Messengers

Air Date : 1978-07-01

25. Heavens! Great Trouble in Edo

Air Date : 1978-07-08

26. The Drunken Man Who was Promoted

Air Date : 1978-07-15

27. The Woman Who Challenged the Yagyu Family

Air Date : 1978-07-22

28. A Flower Blooms in the Dark

Air Date : 1978-07-29

29. The Goofiest Pickpocket in Edo

Air Date : 1978-08-19

30. The Misjudged Betrayer

Air Date : 1978-09-09

31. The Woman Who Disappeared from the Hunting Ground

Air Date : 1978-09-16

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...

Air Date : 1978-09-23

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...

Air Date : 1978-09-30

34. The Women Who Dance in a Tempest

Air Date : 1978-10-07

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...

Air Date : 1978-10-14

36. The Deceiving Mole Under a Woman's Eye

Air Date : 1978-10-21

37. Feel Her Heart

Air Date : 1978-10-28

38. The Woman Who Challenged Her Master

Air Date : 1978-11-04

39. A Sweet Snare from RyuKyu

Air Date : 1978-11-11

40. Go! The Prodogy of the Commoners

Air Date : 1978-11-18

41. Hara-Kiri! The Drunkard Magistrate

Air Date : 1978-12-02

42. A Hot Man and a Brazen Hussy

Air Date : 1978-12-09

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.

Air Date : 1978-12-16

44. Fresh Blood on the Bestowed Sword

Air Date : 1978-12-23

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...

Air Date : 1978-12-30

46. A Grand New Year's Gift

Air Date : 1979-01-06

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.

Air Date : 1979-01-13

48. Hell in the Heavenly Bath

Air Date : 1979-01-20

49. The Pen is Mightier Than The Sword

Air Date : 1979-01-27

50. The Great Packed Lunch of a Woman

Air Date : 1979-02-03

51. The Bride of the Fish Market

Air Date : 1979-02-10

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...

Air Date : 1979-02-17

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.

Air Date : 1979-02-24

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.

Air Date : 1979-03-03

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.

Air Date : 1979-03-10

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.

Air Date : 1979-03-17

57. Eliminations of Black Sheep

Air Date : 1979-03-24

58. The Best Cherry Blossom Dance in Edo

Air Date : 1979-03-31

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

Air Date : 1979-04-07

60. Only the Sun Knew

Air Date : 1979-04-14

61. The Perished Love in a Spring Storm

Air Date : 1979-04-21

62. A Single Flower in the Dark

Air Date : 1979-04-28

63. The Fallen Flower in the Game of Chance

Air Date : 1979-05-05

64. Holding a Fire Standard for a Spear

Air Date : 1979-05-12

65. The Troublesome Tea Urn Trip

Air Date : 1979-05-19

66. Daruma Smiled on Joshu Road

Air Date : 1979-05-26

67. Commissioner Ooka Committs Hara-Kiri!

Air Date : 1979-06-02

68. A Bogus Complaint

Air Date : 1979-06-09

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.

Air Date : 1979-06-16

70. A Loach Pot Rather Than A Domain

Air Date : 1979-06-23

71. The Best Godfather in Japan

Air Date : 1979-06-30

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.

Air Date : 1979-07-07

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.

Air Date : 1979-07-14

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).

Air Date : 1979-07-21

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.

Air Date : 1979-08-11

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.

Air Date : 1979-08-18

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.

Air Date : 1979-08-25

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.

Air Date : 1979-09-08

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.

Air Date : 1979-09-15

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.

Air Date : 1979-09-22

81. Heroes in the Darkness

Air Date : 1979-09-29

82. Angelic Neighborhood Bully

Air Date : 1979-10-13

83. Thief Targeting the Nation

Air Date : 1979-10-20

84. O-sai Flies!

Air Date : 1979-10-27

85. Mount Fuji Saw The Wild Spear

Air Date : 1979-11-03

86. The Shogun Permitted a Thief

Air Date : 1979-11-10

87. Bullet Aiming At 8 Million Koku

Air Date : 1979-11-17

88. Burn! Even If You Must Die

Air Date : 1979-11-24

89. Embarrased To Recieve Flowers in Congratulation

Air Date : 1979-12-01

90. Beast Battle! Master Tatsugoro

Air Date : 1979-12-08

91. Duel! In the Stormy Castle

Air Date : 1979-12-15

92. Cheers! Quack Doctor

Air Date : 1979-12-22

93. The Will of the Raging Samurai

Air Date : 1979-12-29

94. The Lanterns of Early Spring and Noon Emerge

Air Date : 1980-01-05

95. I Saw a Rainbow in the Sea of Flames

Air Date : 1980-01-12

96. Get the Vermin Out of the Castle!

Air Date : 1980-01-19

97. I Don't Need a Mother!

Air Date : 1980-01-26

98. The Girl From the Wolf Village

Air Date : 1980-02-02

99. A Dohyori of Fire!

Air Date : 1980-02-09

100. The Fake Shogun

Air Date : 1980-02-16

101. The Eight Million Koku Porter

Air Date : 1980-02-23

102. The Collector Who Collected the Villain's Head

Air Date : 1980-03-01

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

Air Date : 1980-03-08

104. Japan's Most Wanted Bride

Air Date : 1980-03-22

105. Stop! Uncontrolled Official Carriage

Air Date : 1980-03-29

106. What is a Shogun?

Air Date : 1980-04-05

107. Watch Out! A Female Spy

Air Date : 1980-04-12

108. The Man Who Gives Orders to the Shogun!

Air Date : 1980-04-19

109. Snacks Delight on a Sunny Day

Air Date : 1980-04-26

110. Youth of Edo, Stand Up!

Air Date : 1980-05-03

111. Love Blossoms in Ubasuteyama!

Air Date : 1980-05-10

112. The Proud and Naive Samurai

Air Date : 1980-05-17

113. The Man Who Didn't Stop

Air Date : 1980-05-24

114. I Saw the Real One! The Hayabusa Brat

Air Date : 1980-05-31

115. Beware of the Quick Bucks

Air Date : 1980-06-07

116. The Man Who Died and Flourished

Air Date : 1980-06-14

117. Courage in the Face of Injustice

Air Date : 1980-06-21

118. Thief Training

Air Date : 1980-06-28

119. The Fox Woman Cries, the Banner of Empathy

Air Date : 1980-07-05

120. The Princess Take - Tears from a Wedding Procession

Air Date : 1980-07-12

121. The Flourishing of the Female Bushido

Air Date : 1980-07-19

122. The Sad Song of the South

Air Date : 1980-07-26

123. The New Boss! - Osai, of the Fire Extinguisher

Air Date : 1980-08-02

124. The One Who Stood Out After Being at Risk of Drowning

Air Date : 1980-08-09

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

Air Date : 1980-08-16

126. Love Sold for 20,000 Ryu

Air Date : 1980-08-23

127. The Trap in the Wolf Village

Air Date : 1980-08-30

128. Melancholy Ninja Love

Air Date : 1980-09-06

129. Dad, You Used to Be Someone

Air Date : 1980-09-13

130. My Childhood Friend is an Oku Woman

Air Date : 1980-09-27

131. There was a Bullet in the Clam Chowder!

Air Date : 1980-10-04

132. Run! The Shogun's Horse!

Air Date : 1980-10-11

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

Air Date : 1980-10-18

134. A Silly Dance in an Oily Hell

Air Date : 1980-10-25

135. Duel on the Steam of Hell

Air Date : 1980-11-01

136. The Woman Who Bet on the Mountain of Fire

Air Date : 1980-11-08

137. Edo's Female Chief

Air Date : 1980-11-15

138. Hakone's Melancholic Drizzle

Air Date : 1980-11-22

139. The One Who Flirted Was to Blame

Air Date : 1980-11-29

140. The Wild Spear Everyone Fears

Air Date : 1980-12-06

141. The Bandit Harusame's Mother

Air Date : 1980-12-20

142. Munenryu Shintoism and Confucianism According to the Hayashi Clan

Air Date : 1980-12-27

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.

Air Date : 1981-01-10

144. One Life For One Isshou of Shochu

Air Date : 1981-01-17

145. The Silent Man's Divorce Letter

Air Date : 1981-01-24

146. Ah! Justice Has Tears!

Air Date : 1981-01-31

147. Megumi Clan's Love Bridge

Air Date : 1981-02-07

148. Japan's Number One Little Thief

Air Date : 1981-02-14

149. Tops Spinning Beneath a False Union

Air Date : 1981-02-21

150. The White Waves That Shame the Flowers

Air Date : 1981-02-28

151. Sado, the Shining Yellow

Air Date : 1981-03-07

152. The Shogun, the Horse Thief, and the Brat

Air Date : 1981-03-14

153. When a Man Sparks

Air Date : 1981-03-21

154. The Love That Blooms Inside a Coffin

Air Date : 1981-03-28

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

Air Date : 1981-04-11

156. Jongara with a Munen-Ryu Kid

Air Date : 1981-04-18

157. The Cursed Box of 1000 Ryos

Air Date : 1981-04-25

158. Hell's Bells Ring at 6.00 p.m

Air Date : 1981-05-02

159. Rest in Peace, Onaka - The Flowing Lanterns

Air Date : 1981-05-09

160. The Flowers That Fall Without Waiting for Spring

Air Date : 1981-05-16

161. The One Who Smiled in the End

Air Date : 1981-05-23

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

Air Date : 1981-05-30

163. The Cowardly Samurai Who Made a Demon Woman Cry

Air Date : 1981-06-06

164. Break the Chains of the Heart With Human Kindness

Air Date : 1981-06-13

165. Whose Ungrateful Son is it

Air Date : 1981-06-20

166. Promise of the Bell the Girl With Bangs and a Sword

Air Date : 1981-06-27

167. The Decisive Duel of the Lantern Samurai

Air Date : 1981-07-04

168. Legitimate Marital Fight

Air Date : 1981-07-11

169. Clear Sky - The Hungry Lancer

Air Date : 1981-07-18

170. The Duel! Blood in the Fuefuki River of Koshu

Air Date : 1981-08-01

171. Burning Tears of the Traitor

Air Date : 1981-08-08

172. The Flower in the Shadow That Made a Man Bloom

Air Date : 1981-08-15

173. Waves of the Seto Maiden

Air Date : 1981-08-22

174. Onomichi - Sunset of Revenge

Air Date : 1981-08-29

175. The Million Kokus Dependent

Air Date : 1981-09-05

176. The Bond of Hatred Between Father and Daughter

Air Date : 1981-09-12

177. The Morning When Demons Wept

Air Date : 1981-09-19

178. The Bet For the Dance Fan in the Sumo Ring

Air Date : 1981-09-26

179. The Samurai Tanuki Performs a Great Feat

Air Date : 1981-10-03

180. The Man Who Steals While Preaching

Air Date : 1981-10-10

181. Oath of Brothers

Air Date : 1981-10-17

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

Air Date : 1981-10-24

183. The Night Flower That Blooms Once

Air Date : 1981-10-31

184. The Man Who Danced in the Shadows

Air Date : 1981-11-07

185. The Man Who Danced in the Shadows

Air Date : 1981-11-14

186. The Love Story of a Man and His Taiko Drum

Air Date : 1981-11-21

187. Sorry, Shogun! The Change of a Monk

Air Date : 1981-11-28

188. Call of the Storm! The Bride From Megumi

Air Date : 1981-12-05

189. The Heart of a Mother That Made Demons Cry

Air Date : 1981-12-12

190. The Number One Rain Man in Japan

Air Date : 1981-12-19

191. Cold Wind of Yoshiwara, Tears of a Woman

Air Date : 1981-12-26

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

Air Date : 1982-01-09

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

Air Date : 1982-01-16

194. The Poor and Nameless Grass

Air Date : 1982-01-23

195. The Fragrance of the Sea, Tastes Like Mama

Air Date : 1982-01-30

196. Why Sadness in Sharing an Umbrella?

Air Date : 1982-02-06

197. A Remora That is More Frightening Than a Pufferfish

Air Date : 1982-02-13

198. Sadness. Fallen Flowers of Those Who Stay

Air Date : 1982-02-20

199. The Villain Who Laughed Last

Air Date : 1982-02-27

200. Laughter and Tears, Three Girls From Edo

Air Date : 1982-03-06

201. The Greatest Achievement of a Drunken Jitte

Air Date : 1982-03-13

202. The Tale of the Fame of the Fool Kanpachi

Air Date : 1982-03-20

203. The Flower That Disappeared in an Avalanche

Air Date : 1982-03-27

204. Farewell Flower, Night Gust

Air Date : 1982-04-10

205. Spring Has Come Again! Spouses' Kanzashi

Air Date : 1982-04-17

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

Air Date : 1982-04-24

207. The Farewell of the 808 Towns

Air Date : 1982-05-01