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Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 31. Chapters: Samurai who committed suicide, Forty-seven Ronin, Nogi Maresuke, Chuichi Nagumo, Yukio Seki, Kiyoshi Ogawa, Kakuji Kakuta, Minoru Ota, Hatazo Adachi, Takijiro Onishi, Hajime Sugiyama, Korechika Anami, Mitsuru Ushijima, Shizuichi Tanaka, Nitta Yoshisada, Rikichi Ando, Shigeru Honjo, Isamu Cho, Yoshitsugu Saito, Michitaro Komatsubara, Watanabe Kazan, Hojo Ujimasa, Jiro Shiizaki, Kenji Hatanaka, Chikahiko Koizumi, Amago Katsuhisa, Endo Motonobu, Shinoda Gisaburo, Yakushiji Motoichi, Aiura Nagato, Akechi Mitsuyoshi. Excerpt: The revenge of the Forty-seven Ronin Shi-ju Shichi-shi), also known as the Forty-seven Samurai, the Ako vendetta, or the Genroku Ako incident Genroku ako jiken) took place in Japan at the start of the 18th century. One noted Japanese scholar described the tale as the country's "national legend." It recounts the most famous case involving the samurai code of honor, bushido. The story tells of a group of samurai who were left leaderless (becoming ronin) after their daimyo (feudal lord) Asano Naganori was forced to commit seppuku (ritual suicide) for assaulting a court official named Kira Yoshinaka, whose title was Kozuke no suke. The ronin avenged their master's honor after patiently waiting and planning for two years to kill Kira. In turn, the ronin were themselves forced to commit seppuku for committing the crime of murder. With much embellishment, this true story was popularized in Japanese culture as emblematic of the loyalty, sacrifice, persistence, and honor that all good people should preserve in their daily lives. The popularity of the almost mythical tale was only enhanced by rapid modernization during the Meiji era of Japanese history, when it is suggested many people in Japan longed for a return to their cultural roots. Fictionalized accounts of these events are known as Chushingura. The story was popularized in numerous plays including bunraku and kabuki. Because of the censorship laws of the shogunate in the Genroku era, which forbade portrayal of current events, the names were changed. While the version given by the playwrights may have come to be accepted as historical fact by some, the Chushingura was written some 50 years after the event, and numerous historical records about the actual events that pre-date the Chushingura survive. The popularity of the story is still high today. With ten different television productions in the years 1997-2007 alone, the Chushingura ranks among the most familiar of all stories in Japan. The bakufu's censorship laws ha