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Recent
Writings on the Ako
Incident of 1701-03, also known as
the Revenge of the 47 Ronin (or "Loyal Samurai" or
"Gishi") and as "Chūshingura"
after
the puppet play Kanadehon
Chūshingura of 1748 I. "THREE HUNDRED YEARS OF CHUSHINGURA" series in Monumenta Nipponica, 2003-06 2) Bitō Masahide, "The Akō Incident of
1701-1703." Translated by Henry D. Smith II. Monumenta Nipponica,
58:2 (Summer 2003), pp. 149-70. PDF 3) James McMullen, "Confucian Perspectives on the
Akō
Revenge: Law and Moral Agency." Monumenta Nipponica,
58:3 (Autumn 2003), pp. 293-315. PDF 4) Federico
Marcon and Henry D. Smith II, “A Chūshingura
Palimpsest: Young Motoori Norinaga Hears the Story of
the Akō Rōnin from a Buddhist Priest.” Monumenta
Nipponica, 58:4 (Winter 2003), pp. 439-65. PDF 5) Hyōdō Hiromi and
Henry D. Smith II, “Singing Tales of the Gishi:
Naniwabushi and the Forty-seven Rōnin in Late Meiji
Japan.” Monumenta Nipponica, 61/4 (Winter
2006), pp. 459-508. PDF
Includes a translation by Henry D. Smith of
“Parting in the Snow at Nanbuzaka” (Nanbuzaka yuki no
wakare) of Tōchūken Kumoemon, pp. 509-519. PDF II. Other articles by Henry Smith on Chūshingura and the Akō Gishi 2004. “The
Trouble with Terasaka: The Forty-Seventh Rōnin and the
Chūshingura Imagination.” Nichibunken Japan Review, 14 (2004), pp.
3-65. PDF 2006. "The
Media and Politics of Japanese Popular History: The
Case of the Akō Gishi." In James C. Baxter, ed., Historical
Consciousness, Historiography, and Modern Japanese
Values (Kyoto: International Research Center for
Japanese Studies, 2006), pp. 75-97. PDF 2008. “Chūshingura in the
1980s: Rethinking the Story of the Forty-Seven Rōnin.” In Kevin J.
Wetmore, Jr., ed., Revenge
Drama in European Renaissance and Japanese Theatre:
From Hamlet to Madame Butterfly (Palgrave
Macmillan, 2008), pp. 187-215. PDF |