Meiji Gekken: 1874 - S01

Shizuma Origasa was once a well-known samurai in the Aizu Domain, but his life fell apart after his home region was crushed by the new imperial government. To get by, he now pulls a rickshaw in Tokyo. All the while, he keeps searching for his missing fiancée, Sumie Kanomata, the younger sister of his close friend Gennosuke, who in his final moments had asked Shizuma to keep her safe. After stopping an assassination plot, Shizuma is hired by the police, and he uses the chance to keep looking for Sumie. But he soon finds himself caught in a tangle of political schemes involving government loyalists, stubborn rebels, sly courtesans, prying foreigners, and even a mysterious yakuza named Kyoushirou Shuragami.