or Slashing Edo was a popular jidaigeki on Japan's Tokyo Broadcasting System. During the decades from its 1973 premiere until 1994, finale, 214 episodes aired. It lasted through eight series, with several casts and settings. It ran on Monday evenings in the 8:00âÂÂ8:54 prime time slot, sponsored by National, and remains popular in reruns.
The first series featured popular actor Muga Takewaki, a co-star in the network's program à Âoka Echizen, which alternated with Edo o Kiru in the same time slot. He played Hoshina Masayuki, half-brother of shà Âgun Tokugawa Iemitsu, masquerading as Azusa Ukon in a good-over-evil drama set in Edo. Also on the cast was Matsuzaka Keiko, who continued in the next several versions of the show.
Versions two through six starred the popular actor/singer Saigà  Teruhiko in the role of Tà Âyama Kagemoto, or Tà Âyama no Kin-san, a samurai who lived among the commoners, to the point of having a huge sakura tattoo drawn on his shoulder, but later became chief administrator of Edo. In this version of the Kin-san story (which has been the subject of several other series), Kinshiro lived in the house of the woman who had been his nursemaid (played by Masumi Harukawa, later O-Sai of Abarenbà  Shà Âgun), the proprietor of a fish-dealer. O-Yuki (Keiko Matsuzaka), pretending to be her daughter, is actually a daughter of Tokugawa Nariaki, daimyà  of the Mito domain, and eventually marries Kin-san. Wearing a purple cloth over her head and face, and wielding a sword in the Yagyà « Shinkage-ryà « manner, she works outside the law to bring justice to the wicked. At her right hand is an employee at the shop, Jirokichi (kabuki actor Matsuyama Eitarà Â, 1942âÂÂ1991). The former Robin Hood-style thief Nezumi Kozà Â, he became an undercover agent for the Kin-san/O-Yuki team. Morishige Hisaya (b. 1913) played Nariaki in special guest appearances.
Actress Judy Ongg assumed a supporting role as the female constable O-kyà  in the fourth series.
A major cast change brought veteran jidaigeki actor Kà Âtarà  Satomi to the lead role, again as Kin-san, for the seventh and eighth series.