Les Vaillants d’Ako

Le mythe des quarante-sept ronins au Japon et en Occident

by Philippe Postel

Book cover: Les Vaillants d’Ako

Extent: 654 pages

Publisher: Classiques Garnier

Subjects: Asian/Pacific Studies & Religions, Literary Studies

Series: Perspectives comparatistes

Series volume number: 81

Language: French

Paperback (Published)

(February 2019)

ISBN: 9782406072737

Price: $95.00

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The story of these forty-seven ronins, originally an anecdote from the annals of the shogunal palace in Edo, quickly became a literary myth. This study analyzes the rewritings and cinematic adaptations of this myth in Japan as well as literary works based on it in China and in the West.


The story of these forty-seven ronins, originally an anecdote from the annals of the shogunal palace in Edo, quickly became a literary myth. This study analyzes the rewritings and cinematic adaptations of this myth in Japan as well as literary works based on it in China and in the West.

  • By (author) Philippe Postel