The Forty-Seven Ronin: The Samurai Who Waited Two Years to Avenge Their Master
In the spring of 1701 a lord drew his sword inside the shogun’s own castle and was ordered to die by sundown. His samurai became masterless men overnight. For nearly two years they scattered, shamed and watched, and seemed to forget him. Then, on a snowy winter night, forty-seven of them came for the man who had ruined their master. This is the true story behind Japan’s most enduring tale of loyalty.