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.
as 弁長
as 安森吉三郎
as 木屋吉三
as 木屋吉三（少年時代）
as お島
as 弥生
as おとせ
as おゆき
as およね
as 小紫の局
as 粂村
as 萩乃
as 木屋文蔵
as 忠七
as 笹川幸十郎
as 阿部伊勢守
as 海老名軍蔵
as 日啓
as 中野播磨守
as 牢番
as 水野越前守
as 松蔵
as 伊勢守小姓
