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Forty-seven samurai : a tale of vengeance & death in haiku and letters /

"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 and was at once condemned to death. Within two...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Sato, Hiroaki, 1942- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Berkeley, California : Stone Bridge Press, [2019]
Subjects:
Japan > History > Akō Vendetta, 1703.
Forty-seven Rōnin.
Samurai > History.
Haiku > History and criticism.
Japanese poetry > History and criticism.
Haiku.
Japanese poetry.
Samurai.
Japan.
1703
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
Table of Contents:
  • Grudge and seppuku under "dog shogun"
  • The leader and "foxfire"
  • Poetic connections: "my strength broken"
  • Chūshingura as a national epic
  • Disloyal men
  • "A day in the life of Ōishi Kuranosuke" by Akutagawa Ryūnosuke
  • Afterword: a history of vengeance in Japan.