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His wife was the 18th daughter of Shōgun Tokugawa Ienari, and one of his concubines was the 19th daughter of Tokugawa Narimasa.
The stories take place during Edo period under the Tokugawa shogunate and the rule of Tokugawa Ienari and center around the title character, a sleepy-eyed, outlaw swordsman who is the son of a Japanese mother and a foreign father, who was conceived during a Black Mass.