Forty-Seven Rōnin Incident Begins
April 1700
In Edo Castle, Lord Asano Naganori drew his sword on the court official Kira Yoshinaka for a perceived insult and was ordered to commit seppuku the same day. His forty-seven retainers, now masterless rōnin, spent the next year planning their revenge. The affair would become Japan's defining parable of loyalty, honor, and law in collision.
In context
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Enlightenment (1651–1800), one of 696 events from that era on Saeculum.