The 47 Ronin

A Graphic Novel

By Sean Michael Wilson
Illustrated by Akiko Shimojima

$14.95
SKU
9781611801378
- Paperback
Available
Shambhala Publications
10/04/2013
Pages: 160
Size: 6 x 8.5
ISBN: 9781611801378
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This book is also included in our Reader's Guide on The Samurai and Zen where you will find other important Zen classics.


Here is the first historically accurate graphic-novel version of a legendary event in Japanese history. In the eighteenth century, forty-seven samurai avenged the death of their master in a plot involving over two years of secrecy. After succeeding in their mission, the masterless samurai all committed ritual suicide. The story, which is a national legend, remains a most potent example of Japan’s deeply rooted cultural imperatives of honor, persistence, loyalty, and sacrifice, and of bushido—the samurai code.