{"product_id":"forty-seven-samurai-a-tale-of-vengeance-death-in-haiku-and-letters-paperback","title":"Forty-Seven Samurai: A Tale of Vengeance \u0026 Death in Haiku and Letters - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eHiroaki Sato\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA remarkable and true tale of loyalty, vengeance, and ritual suicide. . . . In the spring of 1701, the regional lord Asano Naganori wounded his supervising official, Kira Yoshinaka, during an important ceremony in the ruling shogunate's Edo Castle and was at once condemned to death. Within two years, in the dead of winter, a band of forty-seven of Asano's retainers avenged him by breaking into Yoshinaka's mansion and killing him. Subsequently, all the men were sentenced to death but allowed to perform it honorably by seppuku.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThis incident--often called the Ako Incident--became a symbol of samurai honor andat once prompted stage dramatization in kabuki and puppet theater. It has since has been told and retold in short and long stories, movies, TV dramas. The story has also attracted the attention of foreign writers and translators. The most recent retelling was the 2013 Hollywood film \u003ci\u003e47 Ronin\u003c\/i\u003e, with Keanu Reeves, though it was wildly and willfully distorted.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWhat did actually happen and how has this famous vendetta resonated through history? Hiroaki Sato's examination is a close, comprehensive look at the Ako Incident through the context of its times, portraits of the main protagonists, and its literary legacy in the haiku ofthe avengers. Also included is Sato's new translation of Akutagawa Ryunosuke's short story about leader Oishi Kuranosuke as he awaited sentencing.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHiroaki Sato is a prolific, award-winning writer of books on Japanese history and literature, and a translator of classical and modern Japanese poetry into English. American poet Gary Snyder has called Sato \"perhaps the finest translator of contemporary Japanese poetry into American English.\"\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHe is the author of the classic works \u003cem\u003eLegends of the Samurai.\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eThe Sword and the Mind\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHis reviews and articles have appeared in \u003cem\u003eThe Philadelphia Inquirer, The New York Times Book Review, AsiaWeek, Mainichi Daily News, St. Andrews Review, Journal of the Association of Teachers of Japanese, The Journal of American and Canadian Studies, Comparative Literature Studies, The Japan Times, The Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies, The Journal of Japanese Studies, Modern Haiku, Japan Focus\u003c\/em\u003e, and others.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHe recently received the 2017-2018 Japan-U.S. Friendship Commission Translation Prize for \u003cem\u003eSilver Spoon \u003c\/em\u003e(Stone Bridge Press).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 280\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.9 x 8.5 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e November 26, 2019\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51763653640480,"sku":"9781611720549","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/a6cff78363bed245e9f1ede6de55ac48.webp?v=1780238139","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/forty-seven-samurai-a-tale-of-vengeance-death-in-haiku-and-letters-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}