Samurai Champloo, Episodes 12 - 15

A big recap episode means that we are getting int the meat of the tale. Found out a bit of Mugen's back story. Then Ep15 is the one where Mugen finds his wife, this is one of the best parts of the anime. Also it is becoming clear that the tale is set in the last days of the samurai, when cowboys roamed the wild west but just before the isolationist policy.