Book cover for Forty-Seven Samurai: A Tale of Vengeance & Death in Haiku and Letters by Hiroaki Sato

Forty-Seven Samurai

A Tale of Vengeance & Death in Haiku and Letters

2019 Released
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Stone Bridge PressISBN 9781611729382

  • the subject of the book is one of the most famous true samurai revenge tales in Japanese history, and was in 2013 made into a Hollywod movie with Keanu Reeves
  • author Sato is well known to readers of Japanese literature and samurai history and has been called "“the pre-eminent translator of Japanese poetry in our time"
  • tales of samurai loyalty and bushido are evergreen with American readers
  • Sato's fresh combination of history, poetry, cultural analysis, and fictional narrative is a thoroughly new way of approaching a story that is already known to Western readers
  • fits right into Stone Bridge's community of readers interested in Japanese culture and history

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