Asano Naganori
The "bakufu"'s censorship laws had relaxed somewhat 75 years after the events in question in the late 18th century when Japanologist Isaac Titsingh first recorded the story of the forty-seven "rōnin" as one of the significant events of the "Genroku" era. To this day, the story remains popular in Japan, and each year on December 14, Sengakuji Temple, where Asano Naganori and the "rōnin" are buried, holds a festival commemorating the event.