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	Chushingura and Ukiyo-e
		Chushingura, as one of the best known plays, became a pop culture standard, from which artists could draw seemingly endless variations and nuances, mixing fact and fiction in varying amounts to create different shades of the legend.
		Chushingura was one of only a select few kabuki dramas that were taken up for representation in perspective prints (uki-e), and actually became the dominant subject for uki-e in the nineteenth century.
		For the movement in Chushingura depiction from standard kabuki sheets through the series works, and from the eighteenth to the nineteenth centuries, has tended to be one towards an increasing sense of realism, as well as increasing discrimination about what is factual, at least in the progressive works.
	www.artelino.com /articles/chushingura-ukiyo-e.asp (2538 words)

	Chushingura Text (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		The actual events that set this tale into motion began in 1701, when the emperor sent an envoy with a message to the shogun.
		Chushingura became an immensely popular subject among the designers of ukiyo-e prints.
		As a subject for the graphic arts, Chushingura has proved as inspirational to Japanese artists over the years as it has to generations of Japanese theater goers.
	www.ku.edu /%7Esma/chushin/chushtxt.htm (2116 words)

	"Chushingura" \| Society \| Trends in Japan \| Web Japan
		"Chushingura" is based on a sequence of events that began in March 1701 at Edo Castle, the shogunal headquarters.
		It was most famously dramatized onstage in 1748 as "Chushingura," with Kira as the villain, Asano as tragic hero, and the masterless samurai of Ako as the valiant retainers.
		Ever since the incident that inspired "Chushingura" took place, scholars have debated the question of whether the act of vengeance was a crime, and modern-day researchers have endeavored to separate historic fact from fiction.
	web-japan.org /trends01/article/030207soc_r.html (942 words)

	Yosha Research
		Many officials agreed with the Confucian pretext for the vendetta, that "Enemies of one's lord or father cannot be allowed to live under the same sky." But some argued that, because the vendetta had not been officially sanctioned, it was merely an act of private vengeance that posed an affront to the shogunate's authority.
		One reason Chushingura remains so attractive today is because it champions the heroism of individuals who shared a tragic fate as a result of their collective cause against the authorities.
		In 1952, the last year of the Occupation, the producers of a Chushingura movie convinced the Americans that the 47 ronin had really been friends of democracy who had tried to destroy the feudal system, but only after the shogunate had refused their petitions to reenfranchise Asano's domain under his son.
	members.jcom.home.ne.jp /yosha/suicide/Chushingura_popularity.html (686 words)

	SARUDAMA.COM: Japanese Movie Reviews: Chushingura Gaiden: Yotsuya Kaidan - Crest of Betrayal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		The Chushingura Gaiden is an actual historical episode, better known in the West as the story of the 47 Ronin, and constitutes one of Japan's most beloved samurai stories.
		The name "Yotsuya" refers to the geographic region in which the story (and Chushingura) take place, and the term "kaidan" (or "kwaidan") is the genre name for classic Japanese ghost tales.
		The major characters in his story are the characters of the Chushingura, and Iuemon fades in and out of the historical narrative as he is drawn toward and then distracted from the 47 ronins' ongoing plot for revenge.
	www.sarudama.com /movies/yotsuyakaidan.shtml (810 words)

	Chushingura - Hana no maki yuki no maki (1962) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Chushingura - Hana no maki yuki no maki (1962)
		A young lord attempts to combat the official corruption endemic to the Shogunate, only to be placed in an impossible conflict of duties...
		It is a shame that it is not more accessible on the large screen - the bigger the better - but as it sustains multiple viewings, see it on video anyway - it's worth it and you can always watch it again.
	www.imdb.com /title/tt0055850 (468 words)

	What is "Chushingura"?
		"Chushingura" is one of the dramas of Kabuki.
		"Chushingura" is finished, when the loyal retainers achieved the revenge.
		Maurice Begirt choreographed "Chushingura" for a ballet which title is "The Kabuki".
	homepage1.nifty.com /aby/2000/chushingura.htm (314 words)

	Chushingura - Hana no maki yuki no maki (1962) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Chushingura - Hana no maki yuki no maki (1962)
		It is a shame that it is not more accessible on the large screen - the bigger the better - but as it sustains multiple viewings, see it on video anyway - it's worth it and you can always watch it again.
		Discuss this title with other users on IMDb message board for Chushingura - Hana no maki yuki no maki (1962)
	us.imdb.com /title/tt0055850 (466 words)

	Chushingura Text
		Today, more than two hundred years after the vendetta occurred, the temple where these men are buried is a place of pious pilgrimage for many Japanese.
		Chushingura became an immensely popular subject among the designers of ukiyo-e prints.
		As a subject for the graphic arts, Chushingura has proved as inspirational to Japanese artists over the years as it has to generations of Japanese theater goers.
	www.spencerart.ku.edu /chushin/chushtxt.htm (2116 words)

	DVD Savant Review: Chushingura
		Chushingura is the most elaborate, longest, and most interesting samurai film Savant has seen outside the Kurosawa classics.
		Not only is resolving one's differences with a bloodbath an antisocial habit, but most of the characters of Chushingura enter a death pact that leaves little room for anything like living.
		However, Chushingura's bewildering values have a stirring emotional pull, and the movie is great foreign-film entertainment with some good swordfighting action to boot.
	www.dvdtalk.com /dvdsavant/s207cush.html (1549 words)

	Chushingura: The Treasury of Loyal Retainers, a Puppet Play:0231035314:Keene, Donald:eCampus.com
		Chushingura: The Treasury of Loyal Retainers, a Puppet Play:0231035314:Keene, Donald:eCampus.com
		Chushingura (The Treasury of Loyal Retainers), also known as the story of the Forty-Six (or Forty-Seven) Ronin, is the most famous and perenially popular of all Japanese dramas.
		Moreover, as Professor Keene points out, the excitement, color and violence expressed in the play may be considered the counterpoint to the austere restraint and understatement which are more commonly thought to be "traditionally" Japanese.
	www.ecampus.com /book/0231035314 (217 words)

	Amazon.co.jp： Chushingura: ビデオ: Koshiro Matsumoto,Yuzo Kayama,Chsha Ichikawa,Toshir Mifune,Yko ...
		Chushingura means "loyalty," and that potent Japanese theme runs like hot blood throughout this stately samurai epic.
		For two hundred years, no other story has captured the hearts and imagination of the Japanese people more than "Chushingura." When Lord Asano is forced by a corrupt lord to commit hara kiri, forty-seven loyal samurai seek vengeance.
		Often referred to as the "Gone with the Wind" of the Japanese cinema, "Chushingura" is an unparalleled example of the true samurai spirit.
	www.amazon.co.jp /Chushingura-Koshiro-Matsumoto/dp/6305071543 (299 words)

	EDSITEment - Lesson Plan
		Alternative ways of integrating this literature may include beginning the study of Chushingura at the end of the Hamlet study by means of the revenge link or the comparison/contrast of Elizabethan drama with Bunraku and Kabuki drama.
		Discussion of the nature and treatment of revenge in Chushingura includes the establishment of Moronao as critical and disrespectful in his treatment of both Wakasanosuke and Hangan; Wakasanosuke's determination to kill Moronao because of his mistreatment; Mononao's attempted seduction of Lady Kaoyo, Hangan's wife; and Lady Kaoyo's rebuffs.
		Rethinking the Story of the 47 Ronin: Chushingura in the 1980's Henry D. Smith II's comprehensive essay from Columbia University.
	edsitement.neh.gov /view_lesson_plan.asp?id=396 (3926 words)

	DVD: Chushingura (Image Entertainment)
		Unfortunately, it's the only release of the film on DVD in the states as well, so those interested in the movie will likely have to bite the bullet with this disc.
		On a side note, Chushingura was originally released in 1998 by Image Entertainment in a cardboard snap case.
		The disc was later re-released in 2001 in a regular Amaray case.
	www.tohokingdom.com /web_pages/dvd/chushingura_image.htm (503 words)

	Chushingura und Ukiyo-e
		In der Kunst der japanischen Farbholzschnitte (Ukiyo-e), die dem Kabuki Theater als einem ihrer wichtigsten Motive eng nachfolgten, gab es Chushingura Themen in der Form von Einzelblättern mit Darstellungen von Schauspielern von den ersten Jahrzehnten ihres Bestehens an.
		Chushingura war damals nur eines von vielen Dramen, dem keine besondere Bedeutung zugewandt wurde, in der es sich von den anderen Stücken unterschieden hätte.
		Chushingura wurde zum Kultobjekt, von dem Künstler scheinbar endlose Variationen und Nuancen ableiten konnten.
	www.artelino.de /articles/chushingura-ukiyo-e.asp (2401 words)

	Chushingura
		Today, the forty-seven ronin are memorialized in a play called Chushingura which celebrates the theme of their sacrifice in the name of loyalty.
		Subject: In the foreground, the police are dispatched to arrest Lord Asano, while in the background, the attack on Kira while in the shogun's castle is depicted.
		Three komono (non-samurai police assistants) on the left are carrying torimono sandogu the three main arresting tools, the sodegurame (sleeve entangler), the tsukubo (a T-shaped polearm), and the sasumata (a U-shaped polearm).
	www.e-budokai.com /woodblock/chushingura.htm (251 words)

	Chushingura (1962)
		The tale of the 47 loyal samurai, Chushingura is an epic tale of loyalty and honor.
		Chushingura is one of the most-filmed stories of all time.
		Based on historical fact, the story is now a blend of part truth and part myth.
	www.filmmonthly.com /Video/Articles/Chushingura/Chushingura.html (707 words)

	Chushingura
		Chushingura and the Samurai Tradition from Columbia --includes details of key characters --see also 300 Years of the 47 Ronin
		A brief synopsis of this story known as Chushingura may be of interest to the reader and demonstrate what feudal values of bushido permeated the Meiji period.
		The place which this theme occupies in national legend is roughly equivalent to that of Joan of Arc in France.
	oook.info /eas/chushingura.html (3076 words)

	Amazon.com: Chushingura: DVD: Koshiro Matsumoto,Yuzo Kayama,Tatsuya Mihashi,Akira Takarada,Yosuke Natsuki,Makoto ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Chushingura means "loyalty," and that potent Japanese theme runs like hot blood throughout this stately samurai epic.
		CHUSHINGURA ("loyalty") is based on a real incident in 18th century Japan, wherein 47 loyal retainers of a disgraced lord take a vow of vengeance on the corrupt nobleman who caused his downfall and death.
		The first act, culminating in the seppuku of Lord Asano, details the conflict between the young lord and Kira, the Shogun's master of ceremonies, and is, in my opinion, the most interesting as it unfolds logically, tragically, and inevitably towards the spilling of blood in the Shogun's castle.
	www.amazon.com /Chushingura-Koshiro-Matsumoto/dp/B000056NWP (2473 words)

	CHUSHINGURA
		Chushingura is a piece by Saegusa Shigeaki, the outstanding composer in Japan.
		The raid on Kira by 47 members of Ako's samurai can be traced back to the bloodshed that took place in the Matsu Corridor of the Edo Castle.
		It took for 10 years to produce a Japanese opera, Chushingura with beautiful music, which focuses on the love stories of the two couples.
	www.nntt.jac.go.jp /english/season/s135e/s135e.html (304 words)

	Textbookx.com - Chushingura The Treasury of Loyal Retainers, a Puppet Play by Donald Keene at TextbookX.com
		Chushingura (The Treasury of Loyal Retainers), also known as the story of the Forty-Six (or Forty-Seven) Ronin, is the most famous and perenially popular of all Japanese dramas.
		This traditional virtue, as exemplified in Chushingura, has never completely lost its hold on audiences, in spite of twentieth-century changes in Japanese society and moral ideas.
		Moreover, as Professor Keene points out, the excitement, color and violence expressed in the play may be considered the counterpoint to the austere restraint and understatement which are more commonly thought to be "traditionally" Japanese.
	www.textbookx.com /product_detail.php?detail_isbn=0231035314&SiteID=MOf/GaS0dlw-Bbq7h1YzmsKySxvsaN2ruA (306 words)

	Chushingura
		The instruction board at Nihonbashi was torn up again and again until the first article, on loyalty and filial piety, was watered down to "Parents and children should love one another".
		Within two weeks the first Kabuki play about the incident was on the stage, and it has been a dramatic standard ever since, especially in the famous play "Chushingura" which has given its name to the event on which it was based.
		A devout Japanese came to pay homage at the Chushingura grave site (I seem to recall that it was in the dead of winter, with snow on the ground - but I may be mistaken).
	www.arco-iris.com /George/47ronin.htm (1189 words)

	World War II of Japan - Chushingura of Asia - (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Chushingura is a day of the winter former December 14,'15.
		There was a cause in Chushingura, was a result, both parties were evaluated, and it became the fine anecdote and a good deed.
		On the other hand, the Pacific War became a result that all causes were passed over, only the result was evaluated, and unfairness Shayo is divided.
	shupla.w-jp.net /english/WorldWarIIofJapan.html (8606 words)

	Pre-Renaissance Japan: (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		At this time, the students are already sensitized to the nature of revenge in Elizabethan society and in Hamlet and may, therefore, be ready to explore the nature of revenge in Chushingura.
		Alternative ways of integrating this literature may include beginning the study of Chushingura at the end of the Hamlet study by means of the revenge link or the comparison/contrast of kabuki and Elizabethan drama.
		Assign students to convert a scene of Chushingura into an Elizabethan tragedy or Hamlet into a kabuki drama and discuss the changes they made and the reasons for those changes.
	www.smith.edu /fcceas/curriculum/vicceart.htm (2367 words)

	Chushingura (1748)
		As with the other versions I've seen, including films, the protagonist, and the center of the story, is Yuranosuke, Hangan's chief retainer, who conspires to kill Moronao for being responsible for Hangan comitting seppuku.
		Since everyone knows the story, I will just note some interesting differences between this play and two of the more well-known films: Inagaki's CHUSHINGURA and Mizoguchi's THE 47 RONIN (both available on DVD here in the US).
		The play is far more tragic in the sense that many people, not just the samurai, are shown to contribute, suffer, and do their best to uphold the honor of the late Lord.
	www.gotterdammerung.org /books/reviews/c/chushingura.html (542 words)

	Chushingura: Loyalty and Revenge in Eighteenth-Century Japan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Chushingura (Tale of the Loyal Retainers), the tale of forty-seven masterless samurai (ronin), is known by virtually every Japanese and is rooted in actual history.
		Many of the most famous Japanese wood-block artists from the eighteenth to the twentieth centuries have depicted this famous event, and the Allentown Art Museum is fortunate in having several well-known wood-block prints in its collection, including a stunning complete set of full-figure images of each ronin by the renowned Utagawa Kuniyoshi (1797-1861).
		This exhibition presents a selection of Chushingura prints from the Museum’s collection and will include many of the Kuniyoshi prints as well as a rare pentatypch by Utagawa Toyokuni (1769-1825) that depicts all eleven acts of the Kabuki play Kanadehon Chushingura (Treasury of Loyal Retainers) organized as one long scroll-like picture.
	www.allentownartmuseum.org /gallery/exhibits/chushingura.html (377 words)

	The Ninja Dojo - Chushingura
		For two hundred years, no other story has captured the hearts and imagination of the Japanese people more than "Chushingura." When Lord Asano is forced by a corrupt lord to commit hara kiri, forty-seven loyal samurai seek vengeance.
		This is a thematically dense, politically complex drama, presented here at its fullest length (207 minutes) and best appreciated after multiple viewings.
		Often referred to as the "Gone with the Wind" of the Japanese cinema, "Chushingura" is an unparalleled example of the true samurai spirit.
	www.ninjadojo.com /Chushingura_mifune.htm (107 words)

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