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CHIUSHINGURA.The celebrated story of the FORTY-SEVEN RONINS,also called the revenge
of Asano,or The Loyal League, is well known; it has been drematised,and its episodes are
the subject of numerous sets of prints and illustrations of all kinds.
ASANO TAKUMI NO KAMI had been appointed to receive the ambassadors from the Emperor
to the SYOGUN.His instructor in court etiquette,KIRA KOTSUKE NO SUKE, so persistently
insulted him that he had to draw his sword in the palace.Such an offence was punishable
with death,and he was therefore obliged to commit seppuku in April,1701.
His principal retainer and counsellor, OISHI KURANOSUKE, and forty-six of his companions
thus becoming ronins,swore to avenge their dead master, and after many troubles succeeded
in slaying KOTSUKE NO SUKE,after which they all committed harakiri(1706). Their graves
in the cemetery of Sengakuji receiveevery mark of respect to this day.
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