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

by Hiroaki Sato

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 years, in the dead of winter, a band of forty-seven of Asano's retainers avenged him by breaking into Yoshinaka's mansion and killing him. Subsequently,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1611720540
• ISBN13: 9781611720549
• Release Date: November 2019
• Publisher: Stone Bridge Press
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 8.5"