The Tale of Forty Seven Ronins

by A. B Mitford

$100 · Offered by Mullen Books

Tokyo, Japan: Jiujiya & Company, 1889. Hardcover. Color illus. paper over boards; black cloth at spine; 31 pp.; 12 bw figures. Good. Ex-lib., usual markings; some wear to extremities; front cover nearly detached . Item #124821 Called by some the national legend of Japan; Recounts the story of a group of forty-seven samurai who avenged their leader's death by ritual suicide through murder, leading to their own deaths

• Binding: Hardcover

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