The book recreates a very famous incident in 1701 in which Asano Naganori (Lord Asano) was required to commit harakiri. Each plate is preceded by a blank tissue guard. Meiji 25 (1892), string tied, decorated cardboard covers, 17 black and white collotypes, 52 pp. Photographs/Collotypes & Seibei, Kajima (Photographs) (illustrator). The popularity of the tale grew during the Meiji era, during which Japan underwent rapid modernization, and the legend became entrenched within discourses of national heritage and identity" (Wikipedia). This true story was popularized in Japanese culture as emblematic of the loyalty, sacrifice, persistence, and honor that people should display in their daily lives. They were then obliged to commit seppuku for the crime of murder. After waiting and planning for a year, the r nin avenged their master's honor by killing Kira. The story tells of a group of samurai who were left leaderless after their daimy (feudal lord) Asano Naganori was compelled to perform seppuku (ritual suicide) for assaulting a powerful court official named Kira Yoshinaka. is a historical eighteenth-century event in Japan in which a band of r nin (leaderless samurai) avenged the death of their master.
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