From the pen of Yoshikawa Eiji comes this exciting story. The Naruto Strait separates Tokushima from the islands of Awaji and Honshu. On Tokushima the mad lord dreams of conquest and forges a bloody revolt against the Tokugawa shogunate. A mysterious swordsman named Noriyuki Gennojo has crossed Naruto’s waters to uncover the Awa clan’s secrets. He puts his life on the line after finding a testament of Awa’s secrets, written in blood by a dying man. Joining Noriyuki are a female ninja who loves him, and the beautiful daughter of an enemy who’s sworn to kill him. Awa’s defenders willl stop at nothing to prevent the blood-soaked letter from reaching the shogun.
Chikage Awashima
Toshio Chiba
Kazuo Hasegawa
Raizō Ichikawa
Tatsuya Ishiguro
Ryōsuke Kagawa
Satoko Minami
Osamu Takizawa
Fujiko Yamamoto
Naritoshi Hayashi
Nobuo Nakamura
Masao Shimizu
Kappei Matsumoto
Kinzō Shin
Shōsaku Sugiyama
Toshio Hosokawa
Kanji Koshiba
Sonosuke Sawamura
Shinobu Araki
Shintarō Nanjō
Seishirō Hara
Saburo Date
Fujio Harumoto
Fumihiko Yokoyama
Ikkei Tamaki
Sumao Ishihara
Jun Fujikawa
Yukio Horikita