Kage Hime Sanjo Kessaku Chohen Jidai Shosetsu First Volumes (Kosu Mikku Jidai Bunko)

[Machine Translation] The 11th Shogun Ienari's wife, Oito no Kata, gives birth to their 42nd child, Kagehime, without incident. However, the soon-to-be-born princess was soon banished from Edo Castle due to a plot hatched by Miyo-no-kata, a consort of Ienari and his chief retainer, Dewa-mori, who planned to monopolize power. Kagehime, the child of a powerful ruler, has turned into a princess of ill fortune. Shioji and Ueiji Kozuki, who had followed her to the castle, flee to the village of Hida and then to Hachijo Kojima with the determination to return the princess to the castle one day. While hiding from her pursuers, Kagehime grew into a robust young girl nurtured by the great nature of the mountains and the sea, and returned to Edo after a lapse of sixteen years. She returns to Edo sixteen years later, and begins to take revenge one by one on the schemers who have helped her to escape and rise to prominence.

第十一代将軍家斉の側室お以登の方は、その第四十二子となる影姫を無事出産する。だが出生間もない姫は、権力の専横を目論む側室美代の方と老中出羽守が仕組む謀略によって、すぐに江戸城を追放されることになった。天下人の子から一転、非運の姫君となった影姫―。これに付き従う汐路や上月右平次は、いつの日か姫を再び帰城させる決意を胸に、出羽守配下の忍者明石十兵衛ら追手が迫る中、飛騨の里、さらに八丈小島へ逃れる。追手から身を隠しながらも山海の大自然に育まれて壮健な少女に成長した影姫が、十六年の時を経て江戸に戻ってきた。そして姫の放逐に協力し、立身出世した奸物たちに一人ずつ復讐する日々が始まる。