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Kira, in terror, took refuge in a closet in the veranda, along with his wife and female servants. The rest of his retainers, who slept in barracks outside, attempted to come into the house to his rescue. After overcoming the defenders at the front of the house, the two parties led by father and son
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of Asano
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would have lost their only chance at avenging their master. Even if they had claimed, then, that their dissipated behavior was just an act, that in just a little more time they would have been ready for revenge, who would have believed them? They would have been forever remembered as cowards and
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2724:Santos, Víctor (18 October 2017).
2705:Richardson, Mike (12 March 2014).
2088:depicting the attack (early 1800s)
1762:The 1962 film version directed by
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2797:. London: University of Michigan.
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2759:Oxford: Oxford University Press.
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1493:Mimura Jirōzaemon Kanetsune (
1436:Katsuta Shinzaemon Taketaka (
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2872:Borges, Jorge Luís (1935).
2748:The Forty-Seven Ronin Story
2512:Smith, Henry D. II (2004).
2274:Analysis of Mitford's story
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1502:Yakokawa Kanbei Munetoshi (
1387:Muramatsu Sandayū Takanao (
1360:Senba Saburobei Mitsutada (
1351:Nakamura Kansuke Masatoki (
1288:Hayami Tōzaemon Mitsutaka (
1207:Ushioda Matanojō Takanori (
1162:Yoshida Sawaemon Kanesada (
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2824:Legends of the Samurai
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1273:奥田 孫太夫 重盛
1246:小野寺 十内 秀和
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