Asano Naganori
An example of events involving a "karō" comes from one of the most famous of all samurai tales, "Kanadehon Chūshingura". The final Asano "daimyō" of the Ako "han" was Asano Naganori. While he was in Edo, he was sentenced to commit seppuku for the offense of drawing a sword against Kira Yoshinaka in Edo Castle. When the shogunate abolished the Ako "han", all the Ako samurai became "rōnin". Ōishi Kuranosuke, the "jōdai karō", led 46 other "rōnin" in a vendetta against Kira. As a result of his leadership in the Forty-seven Ronin affair, Ōishi went down in history as the most famous of all "karō".