Chushingura: The Treasury of Loyal Retainers (Translations from the Asian Classics)

by D Keene (Author)

• New

  Paperback
  1971

  $28.36

  Chushingura (The Treasury of Loyal Retainers), also known as the story of the Forty-Six (or Forty-Seven) Ronin, is the most famous and perennially popular of all Japanese dramas. Written in the eighteenth century as a puppet play, it is now best known through Kabuki theater performances.This edition includes a new preface, introduction, and notes.