Kira Yoshinaka

a disclaimer of no one really knows the reason why lord Asano wounded Lord Kira with his blade. Many people have arguments of what standars the samurai should of been judged with in this cause effect affair we have on our hands. Some people believed that the ronin should of been judged by Bushido, the honor code of samurai, some believe that the law when of been a correct way of judging the samurai. You have others that what happened to the ronin fair after what happened to their lord, and then other on what is morally right or wrong with the action seppku. Then you have those in between people, people who are on the boarder of fairness and lawful, those people believe justice was served or wasn't served. You have all of these arguments of which standard people felt the ronin should of been judged by. If you believe that any of those arguments fit your…

1) Chushingura fascinated both nobles and commoners in Japan. Why do you think it appealed to two such different classes? (Name a commoner who appears in the play) The appeal of Chushingura can be explained by looking to the contemporary happenings at the time that the play came out. It was not that long ago that the 46 retainers of Lord Asano Naganori of Ako took the head of the Lord Kira Yoshinaka in an honor killing over the death of their master. At the time they were hailed as heroes by…