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A woodblock print by ukiyo-e master Utagawa Kuniyoshi depicting famous rōnin Miyamoto Musashi having his fortune told Ukiyo-e woodblock print by Yoshitoshi depicting Oishi Chikara, one of the forty-seven rōnin. In feudal Japan (1185–1868), a rōnin (/ ˈ r oʊ n ɪ n / ROH-nin; Japanese: 浪人, IPA:, 'drifter' or 'wandering man', lit.
46 rōnin sentenced to ritual suicide on 4 February 1703, with 1 pardoned The revenge of the forty-seven rōnin ( 四十七士 , Shijūshichishi ) , [ 2 ] also known as the Akō incident ( 赤穂事件 , Akō jiken ) or Akō vendetta , was a historical event in Japan in which a band of rōnin (lordless samurai ) avenged the death of their ...
Chūshingura (忠臣蔵, The Treasury of Loyal Retainers) is the title given to fictionalized accounts in Japanese literature, theater, and film that relate to the historical incident involving the forty-seven rōnin and their mission to avenge the death of their master, Asano Naganori.
In the unsettled period after the ending of the national isolation policy, the political situation in Japan became increasingly chaotic. Anti-government and anti-foreign rōnin congregated on the old imperial capital of Kyoto, and many of the daimyōs from the western feudal domains also established residences in Kyoto in an attempt to exert influence on the Imperial Court to pressure the ...
Forty-seven rōnin (disambiguation) 5 Ronin, comic book limited series; Green Ronin Publishing, a role-playing game publisher; Ronin Arts, a role-playing game company; Ronin Network, an Ethereum sidechain
Yui Shōsetsu. Yui Shōsetsu (由井 正雪 or 由比 正雪, 1605 – September 10, 1651) was a Japanese military scholar and rōnin in the Edo period. He was one of the ringleaders of the 1651 Keian Uprising, an attempt to overthrow the Tokugawa Shogunate, but informal communication uncovered the plot and he was cornered and committed suicide.
Rōnin, a samurai without a lord or master; Rounin, a Philippine television series; See also. Ronin (disambiguation) This page was last edited on 18 November 2024 ...
They center on the title character, a sleepy-eyed rōnin, or masterless swordsman, who is the son of a Japanese mother (the daughter of a daimyō, who commits jigaki (see "Female Ritual Suicide" in Seppuku) some time after Kyoshiro's birth) and a foreign father, and who was conceived during a Black Mass (resulting in his fierce hatred for what ...