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===Literature=== * The earliest known account of the Akō incident in the West was published in 1822 in [[Isaac Titsingh]]'s posthumously-published book ''Illustrations of Japan''.{{sfn|Titsingh|2006|p=91}} * The first book of the juvenile Samurai Mystery series by Dorothy and Thomas Hoobler, ''The Ghost in the Tokaido Inn'' (2005), weaves the kabuki play ''The Forty-Seven Ronin'' into the plot. * The incident is the subject of [[Jorge Luis Borges]]' short story "The Uncivil Teacher of Court Etiquette Kôtsuké no Suké", included in the 1935 collection ''[[A Universal History of Infamy]]''. * The legend of the forty-seven rōnin was adapted into two [[Graphic novel|graphic novels]] published by [[Dark Horse Comics]]. The first is ''47 Ronin'', a 2014 faithful retelling written by [[Mike Richardson (publisher)|Mike Richardson]] and illustrated by [[Stan Sakai]].<ref>{{Cite web |last=Richardson |first=Mike |date=March 12, 2014 |title=''47 Ronin'' |publisher=Dark Horse Comics |url=https://www.darkhorse.com/Books/21-375/47-Ronin-HC}}</ref> The second Dark Horse Comics adaption is ''Seppuku'', the second part of [[Víctor Santos (author)|Víctor Santos]]' 2017 graphic novel ''Rashomon: A Commissioner Heigo Kobayashi Case'', which also adapts "[[In a Grove]]", the [[Ryūnosuke Akutagawa]] short story the 1950 film ''[[Rashomon]]'' is based on.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Santos |first=Víctor |date=October 18, 2017 |title=''Rashomon: A Commissioner Heigo Kobayashi Case'' |publisher=Dark Horse Comics |url=https://www.darkhorse.com/Books/28-126/Rashomon-A-Commissioner-Heigo-Kobayashi-Case-HC}}</ref>
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