A tragic love story involving the 5th Shogun of the Tokugawa dynasty and a woman who became one of his concubines.
Japan, February 1868. As the Tokugawa shogunate declines and the power of Emperor Meiji grows, Gonzo, a soldier of the Restoration Army, returns to Sawando, his hometown, to announce the end of tyranny.
In this love story set in the Edo period, 27-year-old Oharu is a genius in the kitchen. Oharu attracts the attention of the master chef of the Kaga Domain, who arranges for her to marry his son and heir, 24-year-old Yasunobu. But, Yasunobu is cold to his new wife, and he's more interested in swordplay than cookery.
After the Akuma castle and clan were destroyed by Tokugawa Ieyasu in the year 1616, Vox Akuma tended to his wounds in a cave by the ocean until he was awoken by a savage hunger.