Ep. 5: Irako Ends Relationship With Lady Iku and Receives Technique Instruction
Aired on August 23, 2007
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Kogan instructors discuss Irako’s merchant family background while Fujiki vanishes after Irako becomes heir. Irako tells Lady Iku at the Totomi Inn that he can no longer see her. Flashbacks reveal his mother prostituted herself while pregnant and gave birth six months late. Irako was born crawling and showed violent tendencies early. Master Kogan suspects Iku’s conduct and cuts off a nipple as punishment. Irako is later summoned to Kontake Shrine on Akiba Mountain, where Master Kogan first awakened to the Nagare Boshi technique. He is promised instruction in the Shooting Star Technique at this significant location. The narrative connects Irako’s difficult origins and current status to his upcoming training under the Kogan master.
Episodes
- Ep. 1 · Tokugawa Tadanaga stages a deadly steel sword tournament at Sunpu Castle in 1629.
- Ep. 2 · Iwamata Kogan tests Irako with a yodare-azuki ritual to decide dojo acceptance
- Ep. 3 · Irako advances as Kogan's successor candidate while challenging rivals to retrieve the heads of the Funaki twins.
- Ep. 4 · Lady Iku faces rumors while Irako is named heir and Fujiki defeats a revenge seeker
- Ep. 5 · Irako Ends Relationship With Lady Iku and Receives Technique Instruction
- Ep. 6 · Irako endures rigged trials and mutilation while losing his inheritance dreams to Fujiki.
- Ep. 7 · Tokugawa Tadanaga's cruelty and Fujiki's bare-handed duel with ronin samurai
- Ep. 8 · Instructors target Hikagi Jingorou as scapegoat for Suzunosuke's death.
- Ep. 9 · Mie flees with her father's sword while Fujiki confronts Okitsu in the woods.