About one of Japan's most popular historical characters, former Vice-Shogun Tokugawa Mitsukuni, the sage who wanders the countryside rectifying government corruption along with his faithful attendants

For nearly 300 years, Japan had been hermetically sealed to the outside world. When, in that pivotal year of 1854, the American Admiral Perry took the direct approach that the Dutch had been unwilling to take, the ruling Shogun knew that the dynasty was over. As the shogun began to open up to the outside world, the Sonno Joi movement called for this to be reversed...

Jesuit priests in Japan during the 17th century are persecuted by the shogunate to for trying to spread Christianity.