The Stoddard Library: A Thousand Hours of Entertainment with the World's Great Writers, Volume 7G.L. Shuman & Company, 1911 - Literature |
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... RÔNINS Ar the beginning of the eighteenth century there lived a daimio , called Asano Takumi no Kami , the lord of the castle of Akô , in the province of Harima . Now it happened that an Imperial ambassador from the Court of the Mikado ...
... RÔNINS Ar the beginning of the eighteenth century there lived a daimio , called Asano Takumi no Kami , the lord of the castle of Akô , in the province of Harima . Now it happened that an Imperial ambassador from the Court of the Mikado ...
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... Rônins , some of them took service with other daimios , and others became merchants . Now amongst these retainers was his principal councilor , a man called Oishi Kuranosuké , who , with forty - six other faithful dependents , formed a ...
... Rônins , some of them took service with other daimios , and others became merchants . Now amongst these retainers was his principal councilor , a man called Oishi Kuranosuké , who , with forty - six other faithful dependents , formed a ...
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... Rônins determined that no more favorable opportunity could occur for carrying out their purpose . So they took counsel together , and , having divided their band into two parties , assigned to each man his post . One band , led by Oishi ...
... Rônins determined that no more favorable opportunity could occur for carrying out their purpose . So they took counsel together , and , having divided their band into two parties , assigned to each man his post . One band , led by Oishi ...
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... Rônins agreed on condition that the keys of the gate should be given up ; but the others tremblingly said that the keys were kept in the house of one of their officers , and that they had no means of obtaining them . Then the Rônins ...
... Rônins agreed on condition that the keys of the gate should be given up ; but the others tremblingly said that the keys were kept in the house of one of their officers , and that they had no means of obtaining them . Then the Rônins ...
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... Rônins , Ku- ranosuké stationed ten of his men armed with bows on the roof of the four sides of the courtyard , with orders to shoot any retainers who might attempt to leave the place . Having thus laid all his plans and posted his men ...
... Rônins , Ku- ranosuké stationed ten of his men armed with bows on the roof of the four sides of the courtyard , with orders to shoot any retainers who might attempt to leave the place . Having thus laid all his plans and posted his men ...
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