Overview

On March 11 in the seventh year of Tenpo (1836), a monk named Bennō, who fell in love with a geisha named Oshima, was publicly exposed at Nihonbashi for committing an illicit act with a woman. While this was happening, an extravagant procession led by another monk named Nikkei passed over the bridge. Nikkei, the head of the Kanouin temple, in collusion with Nakano Harima-no-Kami, had schemed to make his younger sister, Miyoshi, the Shogun's mistress and aimed to transform Kanouin into the Shogun's family temple. To fund the renovations, Nikkei accepted bribes from a corrupt merchant named Koya Bunzo.

Cast

Senjaku Nakamura

木屋吉三

Tamao Nakamura

木屋吉三（少年時代）

Kuniko Igawa

弥生

Michiko Saga

おとせ

Chieko Naniwa

小紫の局

Reiko Kitami

粂村

Ryōsuke Kagawa

木屋文蔵

Kodayu Ichikawa

阿部伊勢守