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The Tale of the Ako Forty-Seven samurai(1)


(1)Ako Castle (Ako City,Hyogo)
These are Ema which hanging in Oishi Shrine.
(2)Asano Takuminokami (the feudal lord of Ako Castle) slashed
Kira Kozukenosuke with sword in Edo Castle (the castle of Shougn)
on March 14,1701.
(3) The Shogunate ordered Asano Takuminokami to
commit ritual suicide hara-kiri in Tamura Ukyodayu's premises.
But the Shogunate conveyed Kira Kozukenosuke to take care
of Kira's health in disregard of their rule.
(4)The expressed palanquin conveys theaffair of
bloodshed and Asano Takuminokami's hara-kiri,the
attainder to Oishi Kuranosuke in Ako.

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