"Shijushichinin no Shikaku" (Forty-Seven Assassins) Shoichiro Ikenami "Tonight, we kill Kira" - that meant the end of the conspiracy. After the abolition of the Ako domain, Oishi Kuranosuke began a secret effort to transform the shame suffered by the retainers into glory. In the Osaka salt market, in the gossip of the townspeople, with the women who wept in misfortune... The blade set by Kuranosuke was already closing in on Kira and the Uesugi clan before the raid, and the fourteenth day of the snowy December became the day of judgment. A groundbreaking work that nobly depicts the forty-seven men who have become assassins, not loyal retainers or ronin. #ShoichiroIkenami #Shoichiro_Ikenami #book #JapaneseLiterature/Novel/Story