Akai Nuno No Tozoku (Futami Jidai Shosetsu Bunko Ko1-21 Eijiro Edo Reki 21)

[Machine Translation] Eijiro Yanai, a master of the Tamiya-style Battoujutsu, was on his way home from a shamisen shop in Tawaramachi when he came across a haberdasher near the back entrance of the noseband wholesale store "Yamagataya. The koma-goya had a red cloth wrapped around his ankle. Immediately, he thought of the Akama bandits whom Magobei Sakita, a Minamimachi yoroshi, had told him about. He said that they wore a red cloth around their ankles when they entered the house. However, the raid had ended three years earlier. Had the red-cloth bandits started to move again?

田宮流抜刀術の達人矢内栄次郎は、田原町の三味線屋からの帰途、鼻緒問屋『山形屋』の裏口近くで小間物屋と出くわした。小間物屋の足首には赤い布が巻いてあった。すぐに南町与力の崎田孫兵衛に聞いた盗賊赤間一味のことが頭に浮かんだ。押込みに入るときに足首に赤い布を巻いていたという。しかし、三年前に押込みは終わっていた。またもや、赤い布の盗賊が動きだしたのか。