Les Vaillants D'Ako : Le Mythe des Quarante-Sept Ronins Au Japon et en Occident

By Philippe Postel

The story of these forty-seven ronins, originally an anecdote from the annals of the shogunal palace in Edo, quickly became a literary myth. This study analyzes the rewritings and cinematic adaptations of this myth in Japan as well as literary works based on it in China and in the West.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: French
• ISBN: 2406072738
• ISBN13: 9782406072737
• Release Date: February 2019
• Publisher: Classiques Garnier
• Length: 654 Pages