The New Chushingura: The Forty-Seven RoninA dish best served cold... The revenge of the forty-seven ronin is the famous story of samurai vengeance from feudal Japan. Briefly, Lord Asano, the daimyo of Ako, tries to kill Lord Kira, the chief master of ceremonies, in the shogun's castle in Edo during a visit of imperial envoys from Kyoto. The shogun handed down the sentence of seppuku, ritual suicide, to be carried out the same evening but only for Lord Asano. Some, but not all, of Asano's retainers found the punishment unjust and vowed to deliver Lord Kira's head to the grave of their lord. No one knows the full true story of the forty-seven ronin, but Eiji Yoshikawa weaves an exciting tale of the players on this historic stage. He tells a tale of the many players, their motivations and conflicts, and the series of events that affect Japan to this day. An early retelling of this incident was a puppet play titled Chushingura, which is translated as The Treasury of Loyal Retainers. Eiji Yoshikawa's The New Chushingura was serially published in Hinode magazine from January 1935 to January 1937. |
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Contents
A DIARY OF FIVE DAYS OF LIGHTNINGFAST RUNNERS | |
A TALE OF RED SMARTWEED | |
THE RECORD OF BIRDS FLYING AWAY | |
THE DEFENSE IN YONEZAWA | |
A PICTURE OF THE PEOPLE OF THE GENROKU | |
THE RAID BY SUN TZU OF THE KOTATSU HEATER | |
THE SEASON OF THE MOON SNOW AND FLOWERS | |
KIRAS LOYAL RETAINERS | |
WARRIORS | |
THE END OF WARS FOR THE UESUGI CLAN | |
A FIRESIDE CHAT AT SENGAKUJI TEMPLE | |
NIGHTTIME TALKS OF THE LOYAL RETAINERS HELD BY THE HOSOKAWA CLAN | |
TAKATA GUNBEI | |
BUILDING IN YAMASHINA | |
THE STORY OF A SONG ON A NIGHT BOAT | |
A CLOSER LOOK AT THE FUSHIMI QUARTER IN KYOTO | |
AROUND TOWN IN MATSUZAKACHO | |
LORD KIRAS BARRACKS | |
Seppuku in the Hosokawa Courtyard | |
Graves at Sengakuji Temple | |
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| Title | The New Chushingura: The Forty-Seven Ronin |
| Author | Eiji Yoshikawa |
| Translated by | Shelley Marshall |
| Publisher | Shelley Marshall, 2022 |
| ISBN | 1734964472, 9781734964479 |
| Length | 745 pages |
| Subjects | › › Fiction / Historical / General Fiction / World Literature / Japan |
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