Withering Firestorms & Slithering Flowers

During a fierce battle against him, female warrior Kanae Kocho is saved from the powerful upper moon demon Doma by healthy forty one year old charcoal merchant Tanjuro Kamado. This leads to a fiery and intense battle that ends in Tanjuro forcing Doma to retreat into the night after fifteen minutes. Grateful for this, Kanae goes with the healthy charcoal merchant to his small home on Mount Kumotori. There, she meets his wife Kie, who is also forty one, and their six children, seventeen year old girl Jacinth, twelve year old triplets Nezuko, Takeo and Hanako, ten year old boy Shigeru and nine year old boy Rokuta. While selling charcoal to the residents of the closest town with her sometime after this, Tanjuro spots Kanae's apparent admirer Sanemi Shinazugawa and his younger brother Genya speaking with its innkeeper Nori Ohara.