Laughing Under the Clouds

曇天に笑う

In the early Meiji era, after swords are outlawed and rebels rise across the country, the three Kumo brothers ferry criminals to Gokumonjo, an inescapable prison set in the middle of Lake Biwa. Eldest brother Tenka, sword-bearing Soramaru, and the youngest, Chutaro, also guard a secret tied to Orochi, a monstrous being said to be reborn near the lake every three hundred years.