Forty-seven Ronin

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The revenge of the **Forty-seven Ronin** took place in Japan at the start of the 18th century. It describes a historical event, but there is a lot of fiction added to the story too.

The story tells of a group of samurai who were left leaderless (becoming *ronin*) after their daimyo (lord) Asano Naganori had to kill himself by committing *seppuku* (ritual suicide). He had to do this because he assaulted a court official named Kira Yoshinaka. The *ronin* waited and planned the revenge for almost two years, and then killed Kira to avenge their master's honour. They delivered Kira's head to Asano's grave. After that, the *ronin* had to kill themselves by committing *seppuku* as they had committed the crime of murder.

One noted Japanese scholar described the tale, the most famous example of the samurai code of honor, *bushidō,* as the country's "national legend."

### Members 
The 47 ronin's names are below

# Ōishi Kuranosuke Yoshio/*Yoshitaka* (大石 内蔵助 良雄)
# Ōishi Chikara Yoshikane (大石 主税 良金)
# Hara Sōemon Mototoki (原 惣右衛門 元辰)
# Kataoka Gengoemon Takafusa (片岡 源五右衛門 高房)
# Horibe Yahei Kanamaru/*Akizane* (堀部 弥兵衛 金丸)
# Horibe Yasubei Taketsune (堀部 安兵衛 武庸)
# Yoshida Chūzaemon Kanesuke (吉田 忠左衛門 兼亮)
# Yoshida Sawaemon Kanesada (吉田 沢右衛門 兼貞)
# Chikamatsu Kanroku Yukishige (近松 勘六 行重)
# Mase Kyūdayū Masaaki (間瀬 久太夫 正明)
# Mase Magokurō Masatoki (間瀬 孫九郎 正辰)
# Akabane Genzō Shigekata (赤埴 源蔵 重賢)
# Ushioda Matanojō Takanori (潮田 又之丞 高教)
# Tominomori Sukeemon Masayori (富森 助右衛門 正因)
# Fuwa Kazuemon Masatane (不破 数右衛門 正種)
# Okano Kin'emon Kanehide (岡野 金右衛門 包秀)
# Onodera Jūnai Hidekazu (小野寺 十内 秀和)
# Onodera Kōemon Hidetomi (小野寺 幸右衛門 秀富)
# Kimura Okaemon Sadayuki (木村 岡右衛門 貞行)
# Okuda Magodayū Shigemori (奥田 孫太夫 重盛)
# Okuda Sadaemon Yukitaka (奥田 貞右衛門 行高)
# Hayami Tōzaemon Mitsutaka (早水 藤左衛門 満尭)
# Yada Gorōemon Suketake (矢田 五郎右衛門 助武)
# Ōishi Sezaemon Nobukiyo (大石 瀬左衛門 信清)
# Isogai Jūrōzaemon Masahisa (礒貝 十郎左衛門 正久)
# Hazama Kihei Mitsunobu (間 喜兵衛 光延)
# Hazama Jūjirō Mitsuoki (間 十次郎 光興)
# Hazama Shinrokurō Mitsukaze (間 新六郎 光風)
# Nakamura Kansuke Masatoki (中村 勘助 正辰)
# Senba Saburobei Mitsutada (千馬 三郎兵衛 光忠)
# Sugaya Hannojō Masatoshi (菅谷 半之丞 政利)
# Muramatsu Kihei Hidenao (村松 喜兵衛 秀直)
# Muramatsu Sandayū Takanao (村松 三太夫 高直)
# Kurahashi Densuke Takeyuki (倉橋 伝助 武幸)
# Okajima Yasoemon Tsuneshige (岡島 八十右衛門 常樹)
# Ōtaka Gengo Tadao/*Tadatake* (大高 源五 忠雄)
# Yatō Emoshichi Norikane (矢頭 右衛門七 教兼)
# Katsuta Shinzaemon Taketaka (勝田 新左衛門 武尭)
# Takebayashi Tadashichi Takashige (武林 唯七 隆重)
# Maebara Isuke Munefusa (前原 伊助 宗房)
# Kaiga Yazaemon Tomonobu (貝賀 弥左衛門 友信)
# Sugino Jūheiji Tsugifusa (杉野 十平次 次房)
# Kanzaki Yogorō Noriyasu (神崎 与五郎 則休)
# Mimura Jirōzaemon Kanetsune (三村 次郎左衛門 包常)
# Yakokawa Kanbei Munetoshi (横川 勘平 宗利)
# Kayano Wasuke Tsunenari (茅野 和助 常成)
# Terasaka Kichiemon Nobuyuki (寺坂 吉右衛門 信行)

## Gallery 

Image:Sengakuji Ronin Graves.jpg|Incense burns at the graves of the Forty-seven Ronin at Sengaku-ji.
Image:Chushingura.47ronin.attackingthehouseofkira.print.kunisada.i.01.obverse.refshot.jpg|Woodcut by Kunisada depicting the attack (early 1800s).
Image:47_Ronin_garden_raid.jpg|Postcard depicting the attack, early 1920s.

## Notes
## References
* Allyn, John. (1981). *The Forty-Seven Ronin Story.* New York.
* Dickens, Frederick V. (1930) *Chushingura, or The Loyal League.* London.
* Forbes, Andrew ; Henley, David (2012). *Forty-Seven Ronin: Tsukioka Yoshitoshi Edition*. Chiang Mai: Cognoscenti Books. ASIN: B00ADQGLB8
* Forbes, Andrew ; Henley, David (2012). *Forty-Seven Ronin: Utagawa Kuniyoshi Edition*. Chiang Mai: Cognoscenti Books. ASIN: B00ADQM8II
* Keene, Donald. (1971). *Chushingura: A Puppet Play.* New York.
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* Robinson, B.W. (1982). *Kuniyoshi: The Warrior Prints.* Ithaca.
* Sato, Hiroaki. (1995). *Legends of the Samurai.* New York.
* Screech, Timon. (2006). *Secret Memoirs of the Shoguns: Isaac Titsingh and Japan, 1779–1822.* London.
* Steward, Basil. (1922). *Subjects Portrayed in Japanese Colour-Prints.*   New York.
* Titsingh, Isaac. (1820). *Mémoires et Anecdotes sur la Dynastie régnante des Djogouns, Souverains du Japon.* Paris: Nepveu.
* Weinberg, David R. et al. (2001).  *Kuniyoshi: The Faithful Samurai.*  Leiden.

## Other websites
*Robson, Lucia St. Clair (1991) *The Tokaido Road.* Forge Books.  New York.
*Chushingura and the Samurai Tradition – Comparisons of the accuracy of accounts by Mitford, Murdoch and others, as well as much other useful material, by a noted scholars of Japan
*Ako's Forty-Seven Samurai – Web site produced by students at Ako High School; contains the story of the 47 ronin's story, and images of wooden votive tablets of the 47 ronin in the Oishi Shrine, Ako
*The Trouble with Terasaka: The Forty-Seventh Ronin and the Chushingura Imagination  by Henry D. Smith II, *Japan Review*, 2004, 16:3-65
*Well photos  – The well where 47 ronin washed the head of Kira
*Five different woodblock print versions of the story by Ando Hiroshige 
* National Diet Library: photograph of Sengaku-ji (1893); photograph of Sengaku-ji (1911)
*Yoshitoshi, 47 Ronin series (1860)