Hyouge Mono Episode 8

adapted from Hyouge Mono - Tea for Universe, Tea for Life (manga)

Number of episodes: 39

release date 2011-04-07

Themes: historical
Plot Summary: In the age of civil war, when the shadow of Nobunaga Oda was still cast over the land, the warlord Furuta Sasuke lost his soul to the tea ceremony. While war shook the world around him, he faced his own conflict between his desire for promotion and his love for his art.

cast

Hideyuki Tanaka as Mitsuhide Akechi
Kouji Ohkura as Sasuke Furuta
Masashi Ebara as Hideyoshi Hashiba
Nobuo Tanaka as Soueki Sen
Rikiya Koyama as Nobunaga Oda
Shingo Tsurumi as Ieyasu Tokugawa



Mugen, Jin and Fuu continue their trek through 19th-century Japan in search of the samurai who smells of sunflowers. As always, they're in dire need of money—and when Fuu signs up for a modeling job with an ukiyo-e artist, she unwittingly falls victim to a shady yakuza racket. The three of them narrowly escape, and then it's off to Edo to win some money in an eating contest, but they get more than they bargained for when a foreigner joins the group. Later on, Fuu has her money stolen by a pickpocket, and her efforts to track him down lead to an unexpected life lesson about parental relationships. Jin, meanwhile, has a run-in with some old acquaintances when a bigheaded swordsman barges through town looking for revenge against "the Samurai with Glasses."