The Unfettered Shogun is a Japanese television program on the TV Asahi network. Set in the eighteenth century, it showed fictitious events in the life of Yoshimune, the eighth Tokugawa shōgun. The program started in 1978 under the title Yoshimune Hyobanki: Abarenbo Shogun who went after rogue councillors and daimyō who were abusing their power.