47 Roninov. Legend as art

About the legendary Ronins, legendary theatrical productions, legendary books.
When the January night of 1703 Forty former samurai in the service of Daimyo Asano Naganori burst into the estate of the palace manager Kira Yoshinaki, they least of all thought that their act would become one of the elements that make up the world idea of ​​traditional Japanese culture . However, the subsequent events turned in this way, and Ronin needed only fifty years to turn from forty -five (or forty -six) historical raiders to the Edit manor in the legendary "forty righteous samurai from AKO" ...
Ronins from AKO were not an example to follow the Samurai estate, but were models by which people from other classes evaluated the samurai. It is also about this, as well as the difference between history and the legend in our publication. The visual series consists of Japanese xylographs of Ukiyo-e on the legendary events associated with the plots of the "righteous samurai from Ako" in the theater and oral legends-codan.
Many of the sheets presented in the publication are either rare, or have never been published at all before