Cinema has made famous the legend of the forty-seven vengeful samurai. In Tokyo, they celebrate their memory at the Sengaku temple.
The story of the “47 Ronin” has become a well known Hollywood movie, however the legend of these leaderless samurai, Akō Gishi, who participated in this is called the Vendetta of Ako in Japan.
In 1701 in the area of Ako, between Okayama and Kobe, Naganori Asano, the overlord of forty-seven samurai, was sentenced to death by ritual suicide by Tokugawa Tsunayoshi for injuring Kira Yoshinaka, a tea ceremony master who had insulted him.
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