Kenji Mizo

During the Warring States period, in a small mountain village near Lake Biwa, there lived Genjiro (played by Masayuki Moriyama), his wife Miyagi (played by Kiyoshi Tanaka), his brother-in-law Fujibei (played by Ei Ozawa), and his sister Ahama (played by Hikaru Mito). They made a living by running small porcelain kilns and firing porcelain. During the war, Genjiro wanted to make a fortune by taking advantage of the chaos

At the end of the Heian period, the upright and people-loving local magistrate of Iwaki, Heimasa (played by Masao Shimizu), was persecuted by his colleagues for violating the court's order to help disaster victims and was demoted and sent to Chikusho. Seven years later, the wife of the Heisho clan, Tamaki (played by Kiyoshi Tanaka), brought along their 13-year-old son, Chef Wang (played by Masahiko Kato), and their 8-year-old daughter