Isshin Tasuke, a friend of Ōkubo Hikozōemon, the esteemed public arbitrator of the realm, saved the maid Onatsu from punishment after she accidentally broke a plate gifted by Lord Ieyasu. Tired of the strict samurai service, Tasuke moved to the Genbei tenements and opened a fish shop. This tenement housed various characters, including the landlord's daughter Osen who had a crush on Tasuke, the midwife Okan, the blind masseur Oyone and her husband, the carpenter-loving couple Yoshigorō and Ohama, the rōnin Takeuchi Yogoemon, and the siblings Ochika and Shin'nosuke who cared for their sick mother.
Kōkichi Takada
Junzaburō Ban
Yatarō Kitagami
Yukiko Ibuki
Machiko Mizuhara
Chieko Seki
Achako Hanabishi
Eiichi Nozawa
小畑やすし
Rokurō Tsuruta
Columbia Rose
Nijiko Kiyokawa
三味線豊吉
Hinode Nishikawa
Santa Ariki
Toyo Takahashi
Fujio Suga
Mitsugu Terashima
Yoshito Yamaji
Jotaro Togami
Jinichi Amano
Shuhei Yamada
Hiroshi Aoyama
Jūshirō Konoe
Mitsuo Nagata
Aizo Tamashima