Useless in the era of the hard-won world samurai thrown into the street from dispersed by the government military houses, survive as they can. Falling into gangs, they fight with the city's shadow dealers for daily food. Secretly hired, they kill each other in a secret civil war driven into the narrow alleys of the capital, hoping to save, if not life or preserve honor, then at least preserve memories of themselves. Abandoned, devoted, and alone on the road between murder and suicide, they seek their uses fighting for the meaning of existence every day on the indifferent streets of a huge city. Loyalty and Betrayal , Debts of Honour and Debts , The Right Choice , Inevitable and Inevitable (CM) Clans and Ronins , Conspiracies , Investigations and interrogations , Bandits and actors , Merchants and Players , monks and courtesans , Edo Flowers and Musashi Valley Flowers , Rain and Heat , Untouchables and non-humans and many, many strange and amazing .