The Forty-Seven Ronin
The Vendetta in History
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- Author: John A. Tucker, East Carolina University
- Date Published: March 2018
- availability: In stock
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9781107480759
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The Forty-Seven Rōnin vendetta is one of the most famous incidents in Japanese history, but it is also one of the most misunderstood. John A. Tucker seeks to provide a credible account of the vendetta and its afterlife in history. He suggests that, when considered historically and holistically, the vendetta appears as a site of contested cultural ground, with conflicts, disagreements, and debates characterizing its three-century history far more than cultural unanimity about its values, virtues, and icons. Tucker narrates the incident as the historical event that it was, within the context of Tokugawa social, political, cultural, and spiritual history, before exploring the vendetta as conflicted cultural ground, generating a steady flow of essays, novels, plays, and ideologically driven expressions intrinsic to the course of Japanese history. This engaging, accessible study provides insights into ways in which events and debates from early modern history have continued to inform developments in modern Japan.
Read more- A detailed, accessible account of the historical vendetta using primary sources
- Offers a new perspective on Japanese cultural history through the Tokugawa, Meiji and post-Meiji periods
- Presents a comprehensive vision of the vendetta in postwar Japanese popular culture, including cinema and television
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'The definitive book-length study by a uniquely qualified scholar of one of Japanese history's most contested events, the Akō rōnin vendetta. Using primary sources, John A. Tucker details the complexity of the event itself, which pitted private morality against the feudal social order, and then traces its three centuries of enduring fascination in the popular imagination.' Peter Nosco, University of British Columbia, Vancouver
See more reviews'Few stories from Japan are more powerful, more provocative, or more elastic than that of the heroic (or villainous) Forty-Seven Rōnin. Tucker's exegesis is a masterful engagement with this classic tale, its myriad interpretations, and its various forms of social and cultural impact. With characteristic sensitivity and impressive scholarship, Tucker develops the central concept of vendetta into a force of historical richness and importance.' Chris Goto-Jones, University of Victoria, British Columbia
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- Date Published: March 2018
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9781107480759
- length: 332 pages
- dimensions: 227 x 152 x 15 mm
- weight: 0.54kg
- contains: 36 b/w illus.
- availability: In stock
Table of Contents
Introduction: vendetta overview
1. Time and place
2. Eyewitnesses to bloodshed
3. Rōnin schisms
4. Laying souls to rest
5. Confucian versus Confucian debates
6. Confucian versus Confucian, round two
7. History on stage
8. Domestic, foreign, and anti-foreign reflections
9. Modern revivals
10. The vendetta through 1945
11. Domesticating the vendetta.
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