Introduction to Volume 1: The end of the Tokugawa shogunate, a time when Ryoma brokered the Satcho alliance, the Shinsengumi changed the government, and Satsuma fought against the British. There was a man who quietly hid in the middle of this turbulent history and did his "job" well. Was he a "patriot" or a "traitor"? The author of "Hakozume" portrays the "father of the Japanese police" in this very authentic historical comedy of the end of the Edo period!
