Sakura Housara

Shonosuke Furukehashi Hiroshi Tamaki is a young samurai and the second son of Sozaemon Bunchin Katsura of Togane Domain Kazusa Province Sozaemon serves as an attendant but one day he is suddenly suspected of accepting bribes Forged documents written in handwriting startlingly identical to his offer incontrovertible evidence Framed for accepting bribes he knows nothing about Sozaemon commits ritual suicide for his crime Shonosukes elder brother Katsunosuke Satoshi Hashimoto an assistant instructor at the domains training hall is placed under house arrest Because of that Shonosuke leaves for Edo alone in order to clear the name of his beloved father