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Considering the limited accounts of the event of Ako incident (47 ronin), how was the event actually perceived by the contemporaries at the time (or a few years after), and how it ended up as legend of national idenity in the Meiji period?

by /u/Ikhtilaf in /r/AskHistorians

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