The Aburanokoji incident. It was the final internal conflict within the Shinsengumi, and the largest conflict in the history of Japanese swordsmanship. In the turmoil-filled closing days of the Tokugawa Shogunate, a mere seven swordsmen had to take on the Shinsengumi in Kyoto in order to collect the bodies of their assassinated footmen, and it was there on that one gruesome, bloody night that the feelings of the swordsmen intersect...