The forty-seven ronins had therefore committed a capital crime.
In return, Soko devoted his whole energy during nineteen years to the education of the Ako vassals, and the most prominent of the Forty-seven Ronins was among his pupils.
The day was ultimately carried by the advocates of stern justice, and the forty-seven ronins were ordered to commit suicide.
The life and the death of the forty-seven Ronins may account for the fixed determination wherewith the troops met their death before the walls of Port Arthur.
The schoolboy in his most impressionable years is brought to these sacred shrines; he listens to the story of the Forty-seven Ronins and other tales of Japanese chivalry; his soul is fired to imitate their self-sacrificing patriotism.
The tombs of the Forty-Seven Ronins must be visited, so much has been written about the brave band, and their dramatic story is so often told in Japan.
But they did not forget their oath of vengeance, and two years later, during a severe snowstorm, the Forty-Seven Ronins made an attack upon Kira and his retainers, and succeeded in vanquishing them.
Official sentence condemned all the Ronins to commit hara-kiri,[3] and they have been worshipped as heroes ever since.
By the path leading to the tombs the well where the Ronins washed the head of their victim still exists.
As the Forty-Seven Ronins marched through the streets with the head of their enemy, the people came out of their houses and cheered.
Why, a handful of ronins could take and sack in a trice the castle once deemed impregnable!
All of the ronins were closely watched by spies, who secretly reported their conduct to Kira.
Henceforth his retainers became ronins ("wandering men"), with no country and no lord.
The ronins found him there, drew him forth, and requested him to kill himself by hara-kiri, as was the privilege of a man of his rank.
After much planning the forty-seven ronins decided that to avoid the suspicions of the government it would be necessary for them to separate and for the time conceal their purpose.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "ronins" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
