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Samurai Ideals in Chushingura

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May 18, 2016

 

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In 1703 a vendetta carried out by forty-six former vassals avenging their lord's death would come to be viewed as the embodiment of samurai ideals. Playwrights and storytellers have used the story of the valiant and devoted retainers many times since, due to the tale's immense popularity in Japan. What would go on to be called "the most famous and popular work in the entire Japanese theatrical repertory" is one particular version of the story, Chushingura (The Treasury of Loyal Retainers) (Keene xi)...
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What would go on to be called "the most famous and popular work in the entire Japanese theatrical repertory" is one particular version of the story, Chushingura (The Treasury of Loyal Retainers) (Keene xi). Written in 1748, the puppet play is set in the fourteenth century and the names of the characters were changed in order to evade the laws of censorship that forbade the depiction of recent political events in the theatre of the time...
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