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Forty-Seven Samurai: A Tale of Vengeance and Suicide in Haiku and Letters by Hiroaki Sato

Forty-Seven Samurai: A Tale of Vengeance and Suicide in Haiku and Letters

Hiroaki Sato

280 pages first pub 2019 (view editions)

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A remarkable and true tale of loyalty, vengeance, and ritual suicide. . . . In the spring of 1701, the regional lord Asano Naganori wounded his supervising official, Kira Yoshinaka, during an important ceremony in the ruling shogunate's Edo Castle...

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